Facebook Price for Having No Phone OS? $19 Billion. A Must-Have Apps Play? Priceless.
Everyone in a room I was in today dropped their jaws in disbelief when I told them the news that Facebook had forked over $19 billion to buy the global mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
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