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Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp

From Koen <koen.lefever@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp
Date 2014-02-20 15:38 +0000
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:17:57 +0000, RS Wood wrote:

> On 2/19/14 11:02 PM, q.kontinuum wrote:
>>Just saw it on one of my standarf news sites:
>>
>>http://newsroom.fb.com/News/805/Facebook-to-Acquire-WhatsApp
> 
> They are spending $16B to get it.  Huge amount of cash!  An article on
> the
>  Register says even Microsoft purchase of Nokia went for less money.
> 
> Facebook has too much money to spend and is spending it poorly.

It's a bubble, the 1990s "New Economy" all over again.

Compare this $16B+$3B=$19B with the $2.3B that Lenovo recently paid for 
IBM's server business.

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Facebook buying WhatsApp "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-20 00:02 +0100
  Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-20 01:59 +0200
    Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-20 01:19 +0100
      Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-20 09:20 +0200
        Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-20 17:34 +0100
    Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-20 08:54 +0000
      Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-20 11:36 +0200
      Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 10:08 -0500
        Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-20 10:38 +1038
          Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-02-20 11:36 -0600
            Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-02-21 00:02 +0100
  Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-20 07:17 +0000
    Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Koen <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 15:38 +0000
    Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-20 17:18 +0100
      Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-21 17:17 +0100
  Re: Facebook buying WhatsApp Marek Novotny <mach2@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-20 10:09 -0600

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