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Popular messaging app, WhatsApp comes up!

Chuzzy 0 Facebook, News, WhatsApp 11:54 pm

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just so you are aware, the WhatsApp service has been fully restored. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This would be a relief to many users of WhatsApp as the popular messaging app had been down in services for some time now (over 5 hours). You may have noticed that messages where not being sent or received and this was due to some server glitch as <a href="http://www.bgr.in/news/barely-two-days-after-facebook-deal-whatsapp-goes-down-ss214/">confirmed</a> by WhatsApp to <i>BGR India</i> some time ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WhatsApp was just recently acquired by Facebook some days ago for a staggering $19 billion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are experiencing issues with WhatsApp, please do well to let us know. If on the other hand, your service has been restored, also do well to inform us</span>

Popular messaging app, WhatsApp comes up!

Just so you are aware, the WhatsApp service has been fully restored. This would be a relief to many users of WhatsApp as the ...

Facts From Facebook-WhatsApp Deal

Chuzzy 0 Facebook, News, WhatsApp 10:32 pm

<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a popular axiom: "If you can't beat them, join them!"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I think Facebook has coined a new axiom, "If you can't beat them, buy them!" </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's no longer news that Facebook has agreed to buy over WhatsApp (the <span style="line-height: 23px;">leading global communications utility)</span> for a mouth-watering, eye-popping $19 billion (N3.146 trillion). According to Bloomberg, this deal, which was confirmed by Facebook, will be made up of:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> $4(N662.4 billion) billion worth of cash,</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$12(N1.987 trillion) billion worth of Facebook stocks and</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an additional $3(N496.8 billion) billion dollars in restricted stock to be granted to WhatsApp.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More facts about the buyout include:</span></span><ul>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It beats Instagram's buyout by $18 billion with Instagram deal going for about $1(N165.6 billion) billion in cash and stock!</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatsapp has over 450 million users with analysts projecting it's growth to hit 1 billion users by 2015.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">Facebook is the leading global social-sharing utility and now, it has a significant opportunity to be the leading global communications utility.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">The purchase price is slightly higher than the market value of Sony Corp.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FileName=0001326801-14-000010%2Etxt&FilePath=%5C2014%5C02%5C19%5C&CoN_ame=FACEBOOK+INC&FormType=8-K&RcvdDate=2%2F19%2F2014&pdf=" target="_blank">Filing</a> of the Facebook WhatsApp deal.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">WhatsApp founders are ex-engineers of Yahoo.</span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the WhatsApp deal doesn’t go through, Facebook will still have to pay WhatsApp $1 billion as breakup fee.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Though the messaging app WhatsApp is being bought by Facebook, it will continue to operate independently and maintain its own brand status.</span></li>
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Note: The facts listed above are in no given order and are strictly based on the author's knowledge! Feel free to inform us of any fact you think should be in the list using the comment section below or the contact form to your right!</div>
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