Tag Archives: Cross-platform software

5 Key Reasons WhatsApp Is Worth $19bn — To Facebook

Posted on by

Is Whatsapp worth $19bn? By financial metrics, of course not. The company employs 52 people at last count and would need to increase its circa $50m annual revenue more than hundred times, something...

WhatsApp deal highlights suite of similar apps

Posted on by

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Facebook's announcement it is paying $19 billion in cash and stock to acquire WhatsApp is a milestone event in the short history of mobile messaging apps. Hundreds of...

In One Chart, Here’s Why Facebook Is Blowing $19 Billion On WhatsApp

Posted on by

Even in this era of multibillion-dollar valuations for tech startups that have barely moved out of the founders’ parents’ basement, the idea of Facebook paying $19 billion for a mobile...

He Wanted A Job; Facebook Said No — In A $3 Billion Mistake

Posted on by

In the middle of 2009, Brian Acton was the software engineer that no one wanted to hire. Despite a dozen years of experience at Yahoo and Apple Computer, he got turned down by two of the Internet’s...

Stunner: Facebook To Buy WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Cash, Stock

Posted on by

Facebook announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had reached an agreement to buy popular mobile messaging startup WhatsApp for an upfront total of $16 billion, including $4 billion in cash and about...

In One Chart: Key Reason Facebook Is Blowing $19 Billion On WhatsApp

Posted on by

Even in this era of multibillion-dollar valuations for tech startups that have barely moved out of the founders’ parents’ basement, the $19 billion Facebook is paying for the mobile messaging service...

BlackBerry Boosts Its Messenger With Voice Calling, Location-Sharing

Posted on by

BlackBerry has taken another step towards revamping itself by releasing a new version of its free, BBM mobile messenger, adding a raft of extra features. Four months ago BlackBerry...

Are Messaging Apps Killing Twitter?

Posted on by

Despite strong revenue and better than expected earnings, Twitter delivered a jaw-dropping decline in timeline views between 3Q and 4Q of 2013. The most fascinating aspect of the sequential plunge...

Gmail back after outage, but Google not alone in apologizing to people

Posted on by

Another tech. giant Yahoo! Inc. also had to issue an apology to the public via their Twitter account the last Saturday morning, after the netizens criticized it for dissing the Google Inc. while the...