Facebook to acquire WhatsApp in $19 billion deal

GWguy

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vraiblonde said:
Never heard of WhatsApp.
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Apparently it's well known and used abroad. It allows people to send emails/texts/etc without incurring any costs or minutes with their local carrier, costs $.99.

It means you could get an el-cheapo phone service with minimal or no text minutes and still text to your heart's delight.
 
Tilted

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slotpuppy said:
I have never heard of it but damn it would be nice to one of the employees, multi-millionaire over night.
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IIRC, you have an iPhone? So you may just use the stock iMessage app for texting. WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging app. So, people use it to message with others regardless of what kind of device they use (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, even old-fashioned computers) and without using their carrier's SMS services.

It's been reported that WhatsApp now handles about as many text messages as all the carriers combined. It seems to have reached an important mass of users such that it's become the cross-platform messaging service that matters. Obviously the usefulness of an app like that depends somewhat on how many of your contacts are using it.
 
slotpuppy

slotpuppy

Ass-hole
Tilted said:
IIRC, you have an iPhone? So you may just use the stock iMessage app for texting. WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging app. So, people use it to message with others regardless of what kind of device they use (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, even old-fashioned computers) and without using their carrier's SMS services.

It's been reported that WhatsApp now handles about as many text messages as all the carriers combined. It seems to have reached an important mass of users such that it's become the cross-platform messaging service that matters. Obviously the usefulness of an app like that depends somewhat on how many of your contacts are using it.
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I have about 15 people I text with on a regular basis, nobody else likes me.

This is just one more thing I will never use just like tweets and that insta-picture thing.
 
GURPS

GURPS

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GWguy said:
Apparently it's well known and used abroad. It allows people to send emails/texts/etc without incurring any costs or minutes with their local carrier, costs $.99.
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because of the costs associated with European Telco's doing business is vastly different


this is one of the reasons for rise of Chip in Pin in Europe ... every phone call costs $$ ... where as in the US CC processing used to dial a local or 800 number - small businesses not Wal-Mart
 
somdfunguy

somdfunguy

not impressed
Facebook reject now sits on board.


and some companies worth less than WhatsApp https://www.linkedin.com/today/post...p?sf23043972=1&trk=li_tw_0214_gurbaksh_chahal

27 companies worth less than WhatsApp that may surprise you:

American Airlines – $12.3B
Campbell Soup – $13.6
Chipotle – $17.1B
Citrix Systems – $10.7B
Coach – $13.5B
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group – $10.2B
Expedia -$10.2B
The Gap – $19B
Fidelity – $15.8B
Harley-Davidson – $14.1B
Hertz – $11.5B
Kohl’s – $11.1B
Kroger – $19.4
Macy’s – $19.6B
Marriott International – $15.4B
Mattel – $12B
MGM Resorts – $12.7
Nordstrom – $11.4B
Progressive – $14.3B
Ralph Lauren – $14.2B
Royal Caribbean Cruises – $11.4B
Sherwin-Williams – $19.4B
Southwest Airlines – $14.7B
Tiffany & Co. – $11.4B
Under Armour – $11.4B
Whole Foods Market – $19.3B
Xerox – $13.2B
 
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