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Facebook & WhatsApp - an expensive limited defence - Venture Insights

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Facebook & WhatsApp – an expensive limited defence

PublisherEnders Analysis.
Publish Date February 21, 2014
Sector Digital Media, Fixed Line (Internet and Voice), Mobile and Wireless Technology, Technology.
Company Facebook.

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In an audacious move to minimise the risk of mobile social disruption, Facebook is to acquire leading messaging app Whatsapp for up to $19 billion, or $42 per user, or 11% of Facebook’s current market cap.

Messaging platforms are becoming the new social media, particularly for younger demographics, and while Facebook/WhatsApp will be huge in mobile, other services could still side-step into Facebook’s territory.

The price for WhatsApp may be justifiable to counter the threat, but Facebook has only bought one of many, and paying a full price may encourage the others; expensively buying every competitor does not feel like a long-term strategy.