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Facebook has sent a shock wave among its followers that it is going to acquire the famous social App WhatsApp. It is actually said that Facebook is going to pay $ 16 Billion ($ 12 Billion in stock and $ 4 Billion in cash) for acquiring the product. This deal is recorded as one of the biggest acquisition in the recent tech world than the Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype in 2011.
About WhatsApp:
Since the Smart phone usage has been drastically increased in the world today, more and more apps based on Android are being introduced nowadays. Among those apps, only few gets good reputation and popularity. One such app is WhatsApp.
Actually this is a social App that serves as a messenger allowing you to send and receive audio, video messages, share photos, chat in groups and so on. In other words, WhatsApp is an alternative to any Smartphone’s built- in SMS application. Instead of using cellular networks to send messages to your contacts it uses Internet to connect to the user whose mobile number is in your address book.
Other important advantage of this app is, since it makes use of internet it does not incur international charges when messaging to other countries. And this app is available on many platforms, free to download, has no Ads in between. Right now, it is estimated that there are 450 Million active users of WhatsApp all over the world.
About Facebook:
It is an online social networking service. It is a website that tremendously became popular in recent years in the Internet world. It allows to connect with the whole world making it very simpler to communicate with anyone. It allows making friends, adding your already existing friends to your profiles, Share information, and chat with friends, comment or like their pictures and so on. Many have experienced that it is quite interesting to hang around the Facebook.
Why Facebook to acquire WhatsApp?
Most of them would have guessed many reasons for the above question. Facebook has stated that this acquisition is mainly to speed up the company’s “ability to bring the connectivity and utility to the world”.
But it may also be due to:
Facebook needs to expand its market presence all over the World:
Since WhatsApp is already a successful app that has connected so many people of the world, Facebook is taking it as a mediator to build more number of active users to the Facebook itself.
Facebook needs to concentrate on mobile users:
With the emerging of so many new apps day-by day Facebook might have thought that it is being disrupted in mobile. Thus, to bring attention to the mobile users to Facebook might have acquired WhatsApp.
To bring WhatsApp team into Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook have announced that entire team of WatsApp will be joining in Facebook due to this acquisition. He added that, “WhatsApp will continue to operate independently within Facebook with the same roadmap”.
Their main mission is to develop the WhatsApp app and to connect to the whole world. Also, they believe that WhatsApp team will help them in developing their chat and messenger services and thus to concentrate on both the products and make them financially hit in upcoming years.
What will happen to WhatsApp?
- WhatsApp will operate independently within Facebook. Even after the acquisition, WhatsApp will operate just like before without any ads interrupting.
- Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp said that this deal will grow WhatsApp by making it more reliable, fast, affordable and easy to use.
- WhatsApp Co-founder and CEO, Jan Koum will join Facebook board of directors.
- WhatsApp’s headquarters will remain the same in California’s Mountain View.
Thus, this deal was made because Facebook has understood the reality that WhatsApp is becoming more popular than Facebook in several large developing markets. Most of the big countries like Brazil, India and Mexico make use of WhatsApp than Facebook and thus FB needs to attract the users of those countries too.
It is not possible for Facebook to acquire certain other messenger service like WeChat which is the one hope of Chinese Mega Giant Tencent to have global consumer product. So, it is clear that WhatsApp has strategic interest to Facebook and thus the deal was made.
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Hi Nirmal,
Yes, I was also surprised with the price of WhatsApp. It was awesome!
I am also a WhatsApp user, so this really is horrendous news for me.
The questions, what happens next to WhatsApp?
And what will be done by Facebook with this message service?
And you answer it in this article. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this with us, Nirmal.
Nice share!
Nanda
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Mark understand the market good. So money is big when it comes to expansion with such a good network.It is a good blog so other also can understand business idea that how a bull perform to roll the market.
My regards to you Nirmal.
Hi Debu,
Welcome to my blog. Yes i agree with you. Mark understand the risk in the market. Money is always big to all, then what about mark, he is not an exception.
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Hi Nirmal,
Nice share. It’s a good move from Facebook and we can expect some changes in whatsapp in coming days.
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nice article nirmal, this is the best deal ever done by facebook according to me,
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Actually, this is dreadful news. Not a FB fan so anything attached to it is going to require serious watching to see what happens. It may be good financially for theWA creators and for FB, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a good thing for the users, I will expect, at some time, privacy and security issues to come.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policies are insane, I don’t like it, they are trying to take people’s data I have moved on to telegram.