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Facebook buying WhatsApp
Are you quoted on any of the local websites regarding this purchase by FB?BillyB wrote:An over-valued purchase and monopolistic maneuver. If you can't challenge your competition, buy them! The valuation assumes each whatsapp user is worth $42 to FB.
But, then again, 50 times revenue is par for the course on recent social media valuations.
Bubble, yes, will it burst, not sure.........

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Well of course everyone is saying that Whatsapp will continue to operate as a stand-alone company, so nothing will change, blah, blah, etc. But that's probably what they said when Microsoft bought Skype and then they subsequently made significant changes around the privacy (or not) of voice and message data. Obviously FB will want some kind of return for their massive investment, so everyone will have to be 'monetised' in one way or another.
I've always assumed that when I send a message via Whatsapp (or normal email, SMS, etc. for that matter), it's basically like sending a postcard; i.e. if 'someone' wants to read the message as it goes through the system, they can, and probably will.
As an alternative to Whatsapp, I like the look of Threema...
https://threema.ch/en/
I've always assumed that when I send a message via Whatsapp (or normal email, SMS, etc. for that matter), it's basically like sending a postcard; i.e. if 'someone' wants to read the message as it goes through the system, they can, and probably will.
As an alternative to Whatsapp, I like the look of Threema...
https://threema.ch/en/
Be careful what you wish for
Only under a pseudonym.Barnsley wrote:Are you quoted on any of the local websites regarding this purchase by FB?BillyB wrote:An over-valued purchase and monopolistic maneuver. If you can't challenge your competition, buy them! The valuation assumes each whatsapp user is worth $42 to FB.
But, then again, 50 times revenue is par for the course on recent social media valuations.
Bubble, yes, will it burst, not sure.........
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I read that they paid $12 bn in FB stock. Considering that FB stock itself is considered "overvalued", doesn't it "offset" the cost in a way? (for FB?)BillyB wrote:An over-valued purchase and monopolistic maneuver. If you can't challenge your competition, buy them! The valuation assumes each whatsapp user is worth $42 to FB.
But, then again, 50 times revenue is par for the course on recent social media valuations.
Bubble, yes, will it burst, not sure.........
Dotcom was a bubble because investors were throwing money at companies hemorrhaging cash. This time, the companies are turning profits. It's all still crazy, but I'm not sure when the 'burst' will be.Wd40 wrote:The most insane thing is how such a small company of just 30 engineers managed to gain a valuation of 16B. A company of the might of Sony that has given the world such brilliant products is only 1.5B more worth than this Whatsapp deal.
If the dotcom was a bubble, then what will you call this?
An old roommate is Whatsapp engineer 7 or 9 or something. Lucky bastard, we used to sit around asking him how Whatsapp ever planned to make money. Apparently they figured it out.

Rakuten owns Viber, a giant eCommerce conglomerate. If you think they have your best interests at heart more than Facebook, it's only because they haven't figured out how to best monetize your eyes yet.bgd wrote:I mainly use Viber. Not sure who owns it though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten
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ROTFLMAO!zzm9980 wrote:This post, brought to you by "WD40's Daily Extremely Myopic View of the West by an Indian Person".Wd40 wrote:Facebook is basically to show off and make people jealous, nothing else.
"Look what an exotic location, I am having a vacation in" or "Look I am having dinner at this great place tonight"

SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
Now there's a can of worms for discussion!pisceangirl wrote:I read that they paid $12 bn in FB stock. Considering that FB stock itself is considered "overvalued", doesn't it "offset" the cost in a way? (for FB?)BillyB wrote:An over-valued purchase and monopolistic maneuver. If you can't challenge your competition, buy them! The valuation assumes each whatsapp user is worth $42 to FB.
But, then again, 50 times revenue is par for the course on recent social media valuations.
Bubble, yes, will it burst, not sure.........
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