Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by weavie on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:53AM (#7270298)

I'm in the UK and I'd never heard of WhatsApp until now. I wonder if a lot of these people who say 'X app is big in my country' actually just mean 'X app is popular within my social circle'.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by slight on Thursday February 20, 2014 @07:56AM (#7270490)

WhatsApp has about 50% of the mobile messaging market in the UK, so no, it's just you ;)

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by zxcdw on Thursday February 20, 2014 @08:01AM (#7270506)

> I wonder if a lot of these people who say 'X app is big in my country' actually just mean 'X app is popular within my social circle'.

Yes, that is exactly what it means unless there's some research data provided. Obviously it is easier to scale our current surroundings to the whole country, than to really go around and see how things are outside our social circle. Then again, same applies to you too, just because you haven't heard of WhatsApp before doesn't mean it wouldnt be big in the UK. :)

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by timje1 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @07:31AM (#7270407)

I'm in London, and most people between 20 and 30 that I know of uses WhatsApp. Possibly it hasn't filtered to the rest of the country.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by weavie on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:40AM (#7271738)

Devon here.. that probably explains it.

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