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Re:Rumor: Google negotiating $1 billion acquisition of WhatsApp by soneca on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:47AM (#5503907)
In Brazil here, my girlfriend literally bought a new phone, a low-budget android, just to talk with her best friends through Whatsapp.
Re:Rumor: Google negotiating $1 billion acquisition of WhatsApp by bosky101 on Monday April 08, 2013 @02:56AM (#5510329)
India too...( where whatsapp adoption spread virally from blackberry, symbian, etc first and smartphones later)

i work on an im client[1], and my mom sent me a link about whatsapp :)

[1] to be fair, verbs.im is a gtalk/aol/yahoo multi-protocol client. infact, one day we could wrap over whatsapp as well. not exactly re-building a new graph but re-using your existing lists.