Facebook buys WhatsApp 16 billion: key figures

After successfully repurchasing Instagram in April 2012 for 1 billion, Facebook has made a landmark acquisition with the purchase of the WhatsApp messaging service. The giant of Palo Alto had already looked at the acquisition of  Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput ShayariSnapchat a few months ago but had been refused. With this acquisition, Facebook acquires 430 million users, but is also free of 16 billion dollars. Note that Twitter was recently penalized on the stock market because its growth in terms of users was very low. WhatsApp can be proud to attract 1 million new users every day! A young, mobile and not just American audience that will undoubtedly be an asset for Facebook. Investors have diversly appreciated to see their dividends go up in smoke: facebook-whatsapp Purchasing figures Facebook has bought WhatsApp for $ 16 billion $ 4 billion in cash $ 12 billion in Facebook shares The usage figures of WhatsApp: Created in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former Yahoo! 450 million users 70% of users who connect daily 1 million new users per day Daily volume of sending messages greater than the number of SMS sent every day in the world Free registration the first year then $ 1 per year 55 employees Anecdote WhatsApp founder Brian Acton was denied hiring by Facebook and Twitter Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari. A failed job interview that eventually brought him billions of dollars. Nice foot of nose. Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure. - Brian Acton (@brianacton) August 3, 2009 The previous major acquisitions To relativize this redemption here are the sales figures of the main web services: YouTube by Google: $ 1.6 billion Skype by Microsoft: $ 8.5M Motorola by Google: $ 12, M Instagram by Facebook: $ 1M Tumblr by Yahoo: $ 1.1M Note finally that WhatsApp should not be merged with Messenger, each service remaining distinct. But there should be, as for Instagram, a deeper integration.