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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by adventured on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @07:48PM (#7267933)
What if they have 40 million users in ten years? And never generate a dime of serious profit in the meantime.

Remind me what AOL Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, are worth today.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by highCs on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @07:55PM (#7267974)
I notice a difference: facebook acquires other social networks and seems to be enough big to sustain that.

What if they have 40 million users in ten years? And never generate a dime of serious profit in the meantime.

Then it would be a net loss. But 3B loss for a possible 1 billion customers sustainable business is not huge.

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