 "5 interesting highlights of Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition")
Facebook has shocked the world by its latest $ 19 bn spend to buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp. While the jury is still out on whether Facebook overpaid in its bid to stay closer to the heart of mobile communications and bring younger users into the fold, there is no doubt that WhatsApp will be a key differentiator for the social media giant.
Here are 5 interesting highlights of the mega acquisition
Here are 5 interesting highlights of the mega acquisition
1) Current Valuations:
WhatsApp: $19 billion ($ 4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock and another $3 billion as stock units to employees)
Twitter: $30 billion
Facebook: $170 billion
2) Users:
WhatsApp: 450 million
Twitter: 250 million
Facebook: 1.2 billion
(Deal size pegs $40 (Rs 2,500) for a WhatsApp user)
3) Employee strength
WhatsApp:55
Twitter:2,300
Facebook: 6,337
4) Biggest deal
The deal is highest-ever price paid for a tech start up
Bigger than---
Facebook's $1bn Instagram acquisition in 2012
And Microsoft's $8.5 bn acquisition of Skype
5) WhatsApp's prowess
Processing of
50 billion messages a day
600 million photos a day
100 million videos a day
Fast-pace new user additions of a million a day. On course to touch one billion user base, says Facebook.
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