Friday, February 21, 2014

Facebook Announces the Acquisition of "WhatsApp"

Facebook announced that it had acquired the instant messaging application "WhatsApp” in a deal estimated at $16 billion dollars divided between the amount paid in cash and the shares in the company that owns the largest social network on the Internet.


Facebook will pay the amount of $12 billion as shares, while four billion dollars will be paid in cash, according to the report submitted by the company to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As part of the deal, the working group of "WhatsApp" will join the Facebook, where Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and its chief executive, confirmed that "WhatsApp" will operate independently within the company.

It is noteworthy that "WhatsApp" was announced last December for the arrival of the number of users of the application to the 400 million monthly active users.

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