B
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$16,000,000,000
$16,000,000,000 -- acquisition price for WhatsApp (2014)
Facebook paid 16 billion (USD) to acquire WhatsApp in 2014.
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Value
$16,000,000,000
Unit
Currency Usd
Data Vintage
2014
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Facebook
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Tier B
https://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2014/03/24/whatsapp-wasnt-overvalued-facebook/ ↗
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WhatsApp wasn’t overvalued
I have a new post up over at the Deloitte Digital blog, ‘WhatsApp wasn’t overvalued’. I’d been watching the debate around Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp [ref]Media Release (19 February 2014), Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp, Facebook.[/ref] and I was struck how many analysts and journalists were stuck…
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Facebook
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Facebook's purchase price for WhatsApp (announced 19 Feb 2014).
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WhatsApp: $16,000,000,000 acquisition price. Source: Facebook (2014). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/facebook-whatsapp-acquisition-price-2014
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