The Real Reasons Whatsapp is Worth 19 Billion Dollars to Facebook
Four months ago Facebook paid a whopping $19 billion for Whatsapp and a few people may have thought that it was an exorbitant price to pay. For any doubters out there, Whatsapp is worth every cent of the $19 billion that was paid for it. Why is it really worth so much? As of the time of the deal in February 2014, Whatsapp had an estimated 450 million users. It is still growing daily and said to be adding an estimated one million users daily. It currently has an estimated 500 million active users as of April 2014 and so has the largest user base of any messaging service in the world. However, what makes it truly appealing is that it exists on almost all mobile OS platforms available - iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and even Symbian and Asha. Android may rule the world and the USA may worship the iPhone but hundreds of millions of users around the world still use other platforms. Many people in countries like India and Nigeria (with a combined...