Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ...
by Aqueous on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:04PM
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Right. The sole reason for this acquisition is to corral all the users who are no longer using Facebook as their primary messaging platform back to Facebook, or at least making it so they don't lose the revenue. Just like with Instagram, their interest is less in bolstering their own service than keeping people from going to their strongest competitors. I guess when you have billions in cash on hand you can keep people from going to your strongest competitors by making them no longer your competitors :-)
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