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Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 bln in deal shocker

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[video] WhatsApp Quite a Good Deal for Facebook: Rundle

[at Bloomberg] – Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Joe Rundle, Head of Trading at ETX Capital, discusses Facebook’s investment in WhatsApp and analyzes earnings from various companies. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown.” … moreView todays social media effects on FBView the latest stocks trending across Twitter. Click to view dashboardSee who Facebook is hiring next, click here to view […]

Facebook Inc Snags WhatsApp

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Facebook gets the message: the strategy for WhatsApp

[at Financial Times] – It took just ten days for Facebook to make by far its largest acquisition and quite possibly the most expensive acquisition of a private VC-backed company ever. The social network spent up to $19bn on … moreView todays social media effects on FBView the latest stocks trending across Twitter. Click to view dashboardSee who Facebook is […]

Whatsapp And $19 Billion

[at Seeking Alpha] – Facebook ( FB ) just bought WhatsApp, paying $16bn in cash and stock and $3bn in RSUs. WhatsApp has 450m active users, of which 72% are active every day. It has just 32 engineers. And its users share 500m … moreView todays social media effects on FBView the latest stocks trending across Twitter. Click to view […]

[video] WhatsApp Purchase Seen ‘Terrifying’ Telecoms

[at Bloomberg] – Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Nick Hungerford, chief executive officer of Nutmeg, an online investment management company, talks about Facebook Inc.’s agreement to purchase mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. … moreView todays social media effects on FBView the latest stocks trending across Twitter. Click to view dashboardSee who Facebook is hiring next, click here to view […]

Buy BlackBerry For The Turnaround, Not Only For The BBM Hype

[at Seeking Alpha] – Blackberry ( BBRY ) was in-play after yesterday’s regular trading session as Facebook ( FB ) announced the $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp — the wildly popular messaging application. On February 19, … moreView todays social media effects on FBView the latest stocks trending across Twitter. Click to view dashboardSee who Facebook is hiring next, click […]

Facebook Buys WhatsApp: How Does It Affect Tencent’s WeChat?

[at Barrons.com] – Facebook (FB) agreed to buy WhatsApp for $16 billion. At this valuation, analysts calculate that Facebook is paying about $42 per monthly active user for WhatsApp. What’s the implication for China’s largest Internet company Tencent Hol moreView todays social media effects on FBView the latest stocks trending across Twitter. Click to view dashboardSee who Facebook is hiring […]