This presentation is about the deal between Facebook & Whatsapp. It includes the profile of both the companies and basic important point description of the deal. This will help the viewers to understand about this deal in summarised way.

1. Presented by
Gaurav Mahajan
15-07-2014A Billion Dollar Deal.
FACEBOOK & WHATSAPP

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3. Founder(s)- Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo
Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz
and Chris Hughes.
Foundation Date- 4th Feb 2004.
Headquarters- Menlo park, California.
Revenue- US$7.872 billion (2013).
Type of site- Social Networking Service.
Traded as- NASDAQ: FB
Stock Price- US$ 69.26.
Users- 1.23 Billion.
15-07-2014A Billion Dollar Deal.

4. Founder- Americans Brian Acton and Jan Koum
(also the CEO), both former employees of Yahoo!.
Headquarters- Mountain View, California
Initial Release- 2009.
Employees- 55 People.
Users- 450 million people. More than 1 million
people sign up for WhatsApp every day and it is
on its way to connecting one billion people.
Type of site- Instant Messaging.
Website- www.whatsapp.com
15-07-2014A Billion Dollar Deal.

5. On February 19, 2014, Facebook Inc. announced
it is acquiring WhatsApp Inc. for US$19 billion.
Facebook will pay $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in
Facebook shares and $3 billion in restricted stock
units to be granted to WhatsApp founders and
employees that will vest over four years.
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6. 1. Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp gives it additional
leverage over Twitter in the battle for more direct
messaging market share.
2. Smartphones are playing an increasingly important role
in the future growth of the social network industry.
3. Facebook is betting that WhatsApp’s function will make
it a near-essential add-on to smartphones.
4. This combined with smartphone user growth as well as
user behaviour that’s shifting more and more towards
mobile—makes WhatsApp a strategic investment.
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5. WhatsApp will continue to operate independently
within Facebook.
6. WhatsApp will complement existing chat and
messaging services to provide new tools for
community.
7. Facebook & WhatsApp together can develop great
new mobile services that give people even more
options for connecting.
8. Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was closely
related to the Internet.org vision.

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