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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by Pxtl on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:45PM (#7268220)
Google tried to get everybody onto jabber. It didn't work and they fell behind, so now we have hangouts.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by sentenza on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:45AM (#7269688)
Did they _really_ try though? Google sometimes fails to appreciate that just "putting it out there" isn't enough.

Funny enough, they also fail to see that forcing people to adopt something doesn't work either. For a company that lives off advertising, they sure don't show much skill at marketing.

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