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Such a waste. Most Whatsapp users already use Facebook in parallel. Facebook will never see a ROI on this acquisition. Not even close.
See this discussion: http://www.quora.com/WhatsApp-Messenger/How-much-revenue-is-...
$20M net revenue, at most, right? With future expansion and side commercial services, I make $1B per year, fine. But that's after tax. So WhatsApp must make A LOT more than $1B. I really don't see anything else. But that's only when WhatsApp can continue to grow and actually gain that much of commercial income. Someone who have dealt with acquisition tells me how 16B is the right number. I would pay $5B just because WhatsApp is well-established.
Such a waste. Most Whatsapp users already use Facebook in parallel. Facebook will never see a ROI on this acquisition. Not even close.
$16B for something I've never even heard of. I feel like I'm living under a pile of rocks.
That is a LOT of money. That being said, I use WhatsApp every day to chat with my friends around the world and it's really excellent. I know it's used a lot in other parts of the world even more, so I doubt this purchase is focused on US markets. It seems that every one of my Arab friends uses WhatsApp to talk to their families back home (and they use it at home, too). I don't know about other regions.
Such a waste. Most Whatsapp users already use Facebook in parallel. Facebook will never see a ROI on this acquisition. Not even close.