Google denies a takeover bid for WhatsApp.
Event this year beginning in 2014, the acquisition of Facebook by WhatsApp has been much ink ... and a rumor that Google was also interested in the instant messaging application.
This is the major information of this February with new sections Juicer , the redemption of WhatsApp by the social networking giant Facebook has been fodder for the media. It must be said that a sum of around $ 19 billion, hard to go unnoticed.
Rapidly several theories have been put forward to explain such a large expenditure are, notably, that the acquisition strengthens the position of Facebook on mobile, who has already bought Instagram there two years, allowing it to position itself against competitors such Apple or Google.
It would also not so far that it the case, as soon as the announcement of the acquisition, a rumor reported that the Internet giant had also shown interest in WhatsApp proposing $ 10 billion. Already in 2013, the tidibits reported a possible rapprochement between the two companies for a total of $ 1 billion , it was so far amounts mentioned in recent days.
If Google was currently silent on the subject, Sundar Pichai took advantage of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to end the rumor, explaining that WhatsApp was indeed an interesting product but Google had never proposed the sum of 10 billion dollars to acquire the firm at the origin of instant messaging application with over 450 million users.
But the reporter of The Information Amir Efrati and founder of the site Jessica E. Lessin , Google would not have remained inactive on the subject since Google CEO Larry Page, have met the founder of WhatsApp John Kum, advising him to remain independent ... and keep Google informed in case of a takeover bid made by another company in exchange for financial compensation.
While Mark Zuckerberg said that with 465 million users and its potential, the amount spent to acquire WhatsApp was not too high, one is tempted to think that the battle is engaged Facebook and Google has enabled the startup to see its price rise.
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