Facebook announces plans to buy rival WhatsApp

[News Bandit]

San Francisco - Facebook announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to buy rival WhatsApp for 4 billion dollars in cash and approximately 12 billion dollars worth of Facebook shares.

 

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[McFly]

Yeah. What the fuck. 

[jgaskin]

Whatsap is a pile of shite compared to Line

 

I thought it would slowly tank

 

I guess to popular now tho

[LRanger]

A billion messages can't be a shite thing?  Its brainlessly simple and it works good. FB must know something.

[SmellyFarang]

A billion messages can't be a shite thing?  Its brainlessly simple and it works good. FB must know something.

 

What FB knows is that WhatsApp has a huge database of personal messages and linkage information

 

... that they can aggressively exploited in a variety of commercial ways

 

But hey, what could possibly go wrong?

 

It's not like FB ever abuses the privacy and personal data of their members, right?

[marbella]

Looks like the start of a digital bubble..

[Cheongsam]

Ain't used Line yet ... But TG's always ask 'You have Line?'