Comments on: Whatsapp & Facebook: the Race to The 1 Billion Club

By: akash jattan

akash jattan — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:02:40 +0000

Great post Tsahi. Provide a great business reason for the acquisition

By: paul

paul — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:23:08 +0000

In countries where Facebook is forbidden, people are using Wechat and viber much more than whatapp. It will be difficult to bring them to Appchat since Wechat offer more features. Wechat is more than a messaging app.
Anyway, it is a crazy price and difficult to undersrand.

By: bunu bukar

bunu bukar — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:36:05 +0000

In reply to Kavan Seggie. Good work

By: Kavan Seggie

Kavan Seggie — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:41:56 +0000

For me the acquisition is about the second billion users, rather than the first. Zuck wants to connect everyone and in the emerging markets this is easier to do with WhatsApp (a simple messaging platform) than with Facebook (online profiles).

Well done to the WhatsApp team!

By: galeal

galeal — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:16:44 +0000

Nice piece, Tsahi. Mobile is eating the world…

You’ll enjoy this one from Benedict Evans if you haven’t read it yet:
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/2/19/whatsapp-and-19bn