WhatsApp is the first of several big acquisitions for Facebook

If the announcement of Facebook paying $19 billion in cash and stock for WhatsApp surprised you then maybe you’d forgotten this prediction I published on January 8th: #6 -- Facebook transforms itself (or tries to) with a huge acquisition. I wrote long ago that we’d never see Facebook in the Dow 30 Industrials. The company is awash in users and profits but it's lost the pulse of the market if it ever had it. Trying to buy its way into the Millennial melting data market Facebook offered $3 billion for Snapchat, which turned it down then rejected a $4 billion offer from Google.… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

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[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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