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Facebook to Purchase Whatsapp?
Posted: 03 Dec 2012, 10:35
by Stuart
Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter.
We’re still digging around on potential price and other details about how advanced the deal is. But as mobile becomes the latest battleground in the Internet’s game of thrones, you can see how such a deal could make sense.
For starters, it would be another way for Facebook to continue extending its touchpoints with mobile consumers, an area Mark Zuckerberg asserted, on the occasion of reaching 1 billion monthly active users on Facebook, would be crucial to Facebook reaching the “next billion.”
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Re: Facebook to Purchase Whatsapp?
Posted: 03 Dec 2012, 10:40
by Tribble
I do not want ads.
Re: Facebook to Purchase Whatsapp?
Posted: 03 Dec 2012, 10:44
by Synthesis
Dammit, as long as they don't find the "loophole" Whatsapp keeps saying it's free for a limited time then I just uninstall and re-install and it's free again. I've never paid for it and I've been using it for years ???
Maybe I'm missing something. But I've never cared or given it thought.
Re: Facebook to Purchase Whatsapp?
Posted: 03 Dec 2012, 10:45
by Tribble
I have never had to uninstall and reinstall - and it is still free. That message going around is spam and it changes your status. Very annoying is what it is.
Re: Facebook to Purchase Whatsapp?
Posted: 03 Dec 2012, 10:48
by Anakha56
Tribble wrote:I do not want ads.
+1 I am already thinking of dropping Facebook due to the serious amount of unwanted ads. If WhatsApp gets taken over then I will be very sad...
Re: Facebook to Purchase Whatsapp?
Posted: 03 Dec 2012, 11:42
by Stuart
I don't even notice the ads on FB, but ads on Whatsapp would probably prove irritating. Though I somehow suspect that part of any deal would be to keep ads out of Whatsapp. Seems that what the article is suggesting, and it would make sense.