Facebook to Buy WhatsApp Messenger for an Astounding $16 Billion

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Here's a large news piece for this late Wednesday afternoon. This was first reported on one of our sister-sites by Phil.

It looks like today is a big day for Facebook and the popular app WhatsApp Messenger. The popular messaging application is about to be bought out by Facebook, for a whopping $16 billion.

According to the SEC report, the social network mogul is paying WhatsApp $4 billion in cash, $12 billion is Facebook shares and possibly $3 billion in employee stock payouts.

WhatsApp is a popular messaging app, that can message cross-platform, along with sending files, photos, and video.

In April 2013, Google offered to...

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Looks like they are looking to compete with Google voice.

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Quick, let's all put our heads together and make an app that will sell for 1/16th of what WhatsApp has sold for. We'd all be filthy rich!

I have the perfect name: Flappy Chat
 

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quick, let's all put our heads together and make an app that will sell for 1/16th of what whatsapp has sold for. We'd all be filthy rich!

I have the perfect name: Flappy chat
love it lol!!!
 
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