WhatsApp valued at $1.5 billion in last financing round before buyout

2. rawbow (Posts: 428; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)

The $19 Bil is a bargain in my opinion because Google at one point wanted to top that offer and it came down to the owners thought process of the company he wanted to marry. FB he felt shared common thought process about social networking.

450 million users comes down to FB paying around $40 per user which is way low compared to Linkedin valuing users at $100 +. Now both google and fb know that whats app will reach the billion mark by Q4 or 2015 and the trend of ditching social networking to fast IM is on the rise.

Zuker man has just nullified a potential threat which could have cost fb a major chunk of its business in the near future. He paid 1/10 th the value of his own company and scored a win.

3. knacc1 (Posts: 1; Member since: 21 Feb 2014)

I think they will make whatsapp free on ios and android, I think mark zuckerberg have higher goals than making money,I think one of the goals is to take down governments who are not allies and not very cooperative with the US and Their allies using social networks. Social media played big role to help organizing protests by what called "protest leaders". search internet.org project. I think next is south american countries later African countries who are not allies with the us and its ideology.
that's what I think.