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Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $16 billion

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for now.... at first facebook also wasn't filled with ads, now when i go onto facebook 3 out of 5 feeds are ads...

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what if I told you that there is an app, very similar with whatsapp where you don't hav to pay anything(from what I know). It's called viber :P

 

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As much as I don't like facebook, I actually see a bright side of this. We might be able to use what'sapp from facebook.

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Oh... they could have downloaded it for free.

Signatures are stupid.

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Well hopefully they don't roll out those video ads in whatsapp.  With AT&T's sponsored data, this could easily become a thing.

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Didn't Google just bought it like 6 months ago?

Didn't they try to buy Snapchat?

 

 

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Didn't Google just bought it like 6 months ago?

It was nothing more than an attempt :-)

And Facebook buys Whatsapp for it's users, they'll sell the database for a few billion to profit, or send ads, or whatever: We didn't have privacy anyway;

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I'm quite sure there are going to be ads at some point. If those ads are subtle and don't get in the way, I can live with that. But we are talking about Facebook here. So I'm afraid the app is going to be filled with ads and they are going to be annoying as hell. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in time Whatsapp would require Facebook id. If that ever happens, I'm done with Whatsapp.

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If you can't beat the rapidly expanding competition that threatens your product, just buy it out. 

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Didn't Google just bought it like 6 months ago?

 

Google bought Whatsapp for 1B and sold it for 19B to FB ^^

 

But well, found an article, Android Authority I think that says FB stated they gonna do market research with it. [Read it in Flipboard ^^' Will try to find it later]

 

Time to switch to Viber.

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Twitter is the only thing left for facebook now, they have instagram and now Whatsapp.

Wouldn't this make it a monopoly?

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Google bought Whatsapp for 1B and sold it for 19B to FB ^^

 

But well, found an article, Android Authority I think that says FB stated they gonna do market research with it. [Read it in Flipboard ^^' Will try to find it later]

 

Time to switch to Viber.

 

I don't know what it is about a girl with blue hair O.o but damn that avatar.

 

So what exactly is Whatsapp? Seems i'm a bit late on the uptake.

(I think it's a pic or msg or pic/msg chat thing) but fb has it's own chat? i dont see why..

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Wouldn't this make it a monopoly?

Snapchat & No. There's still tons of other social media.

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"WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable [as we can now sell even more of your data to government security agencies]." - Mark Zuckerburg. :lol:

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Well, if at some point I have to log in through facebook I'm done with it. 

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Pretty sure it's going to keep being free, but it will have more ads than NYC. Lame joke but I'm very very tired don't judge lol. It's time to change to............ BBM? PLEASE NO!

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You know you overpaid for a company when you make BlackBerry shares rise because according to investors BBM is "under-valued".

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Glad, I read their terms of service and swiftly removed the app from my phone.

 

 

They still have all of their user's data including all the messages and pictures they sent and they can use that stuff for whatever they want. And anyone who uses WhatsApp agreed to it.

 

I don't really play many games for gameplay anymore honestly. I play most games just for the graphics.

 

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dayum... $16 billion....

 

See how badly Zuckerberg want's to own copies of everything you wrote or sent?

 

I don't really play many games for gameplay anymore honestly. I play most games just for the graphics.

 

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