WhatsApp To Be Acquired By Facebook In A $19 Billion Deal

Facebook is on it's way to buy the world's fastest growing mobile messaging service, WhatsApp. Facebook announced this yesterday on their blog, that Facebook will be paying WhatsApp $12 Billion in shares, $4 Billion in cash and $3 Billion in Restricted Stock Units to the employees of WhatsApp four year after this deal has been finalized.

The following is an exact from the blog on Facebook's blog:


 ”WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “I’ve known Jan for a long time and I’m excited to partner with him and his team to make the world more open and connected.”
 ”WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “I’ve known Jan for a long time and I’m excited to partner with him and his team to make the world more open and connected.”
On the completion of the deal no changes will be made on WhatsApp it will work the way as it does now.

The C.E.O of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg explained that how the both companies will work in future, in a post from his Facebook profile.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want. WhatsApp will help us do this by continuing to develop a service that people around the world love to use every day.

"WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community. Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people. Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone."


This is Facebook’s largest acquisition ever. We think that it’ll allow Facebook to penetrate the international markets even more successfully. With some  integration between the two platforms in the future, Facebook will also be able to access the much more active user base of WhatsApp and add to the user base of its own services.

Afnan Ali Awan

An aspiring web and software developer with particular interest for Android platform.