Facebook buys WhatsApp
Facebook buys WhatsApp for 19,000 million dollars. The social network will pay 4,000 million in cash and 12,000 in shares and another 3,000 million in shares for WhatsApp employees in the next four years.
The California company, Facebook , announced that it has acquired the instant messaging application WhatsApp for $ 19,000 million (around 13,870 million euros as of February 20, 2014), according to information sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
WhatsApp has about 450 million monthly users in active-duty, 70 percent of them are active daily. The...