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FACEBOOK HAS BOUGHT WhatsApp for $16 billion.
Reports this evening say that Facebook is to pay $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion stock, says Reuters.
The aquisition of the fast-growing messaging service WhatsApp will expand the global footprint of the social networking giant.
A Facebook statement said:
The acquisition supports Facebook and WhatsApp’s shared mission to bring more connectivity and utility to the world by delivering core Internet services efficiently and affordably
Meanwhile, TechCrunch says that according to a regulatory filing, a termination fee would cost Facebook $1b in cash and $1b in shares.
- Additional reporting AFP. - © AFP, 2014
They should stick Jennifer Anniston beside him for the craic :-)
Braxit
BraxPitt
Well, it’s official now I suppose
wow, this really is a show news day
@Do the Bort man:your show was poor.
@David Dickenson: your comment was bad, and you should feel bad
Angelina as a waxwork? Could the real thing be any more bloodless. Hard to tell them apart I’d say.
Sure it’d make you hear melt………
Cuts a sorry figure…
I had sympathy for the collapse of their marriage… until I read those kids names. There is such a thing as karma, Pax would that a boys name, girls name or a brand of washing powder?
Peace, Drew, peace!
@Drew TheChinaman :): it means Peace. Not that different from someone naming their daughter Saoirse or something.
No waxing lyrical there then
Can’t even shout at the kids, have a beer and smoke a bit of dubby these days. World is gone mad.
So she’s single again hmmmm how you doing angelina?
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