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Google Can Buy Whats App With $ 1 Billion

Posted on the 09 April 2013 by Aryanbd1 @thearyanbd

Google Can Buy Whats App With $ 1 billion
If this rumor becomes reality, software free messaging over Wi-Fi and 3G will become the mobile application Instagram billion second.
Home Digital Trends quoted separate sources that Google is taking the next big merger of them. The main objective is Whatsapp. The negotiations took place about 4-5 weeks and was relatively consistent Whatsapp to achieve higher price than the current proposal is "nearly $ 1 billion."
When Facebook announced to spend $ 1 billion in cash and stock to acquire Instagram photo filters, the technology world was stunned by a simple application, "sketchy" and only works on mobile devices there is such a bargain price. Dream became Instagram fairy for application development, but the analyst to predict which applications will break the record established that Instagram.
The service supports communication and social networks are playing a crucial role in connecting devices. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg has shared the IDC data that Facebook users spend more time using apps than any any other third party on the phone. Google are losing the battle and if you want to fly high, they need something to stand out as Whatsapp as a springboard.
Line, Nimbuzz, Tango, KakaoTalk, Viber, WhatsApp ... is attracting attention lately especially when speeds are achieved phenomenal growth. New Whatsapp born in 2009 had 250 million users to record 180 billion messages sent in 2012 New Year's Day. Line from zero reaching 130 million users after 2 years. Viber also takes less than 3 years to reach 175 million figure. Even rookie MessageMe also "sentence" is 1 million users in 12 days.
Notably, in Whatsapp but allows sending messages, free calling, it's still making money (an estimated $ 100 million in revenue per year). Whatsapp 1 USD fee if the users want to use does not contain advertising. In addition, it also profits from the partnership profit-sharing package with international carriers. Many spoke network, Whatsapp is that the leading cause of declining SMS.

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