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February 20, 2014 03:54 am GMT
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Why Facebook Dropped $19B On WhatsApp: Reach Into Europe, Emerging Markets
With 450 million monthly users and a million more signing up each day, WhatsApp was just too far ahead in the international mobile messaging race for Facebook to catch up, as you can see in the chart above we made last year. Facebook either had to surrender the linchpin to mobile social networking abroad, or pony up and acquire WhatsApp before it got any bigger. It chose the latter.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/OYWQhlNu2zk/
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