Messenger WhatsApp, which is the world’s largest social network Facebook acquired for $ 19 billion, has stopped working due to server problems. “Unfortunately, now we have a problem with the server. We hope to restore his work in the near future” – said in a Twitter messenger.
were broken WhatsApp application for mobile OSes, iOS, and for Android.
19 February 2014. Facebook announced the acquisition of WhatsApp – a rapidly growing mobile messaging service running on different operating systems. The total transaction value is approximately $ 16 billion, of which $ 4 billion in cash and about $ 12 billion shares of Facebook. The agreement also provides for the transfer of shares with restrictions on the amount of $ 3 billion to the founders and employees of WhatsApp for four years after the closing of the transaction.
service WhatsApp has about 450 million users per month, 70% of them are active any
“unusually high activity WhatsApp users and the rapid growth of the company offers easy messaging. honor for us to collaborate with Mark (Zuckerberg) and Facebook as we continue to carry your product to more people around the world,” – said co-founder and head of WhatsApp Yang Koumi. Under the deal, he will join the board of directors of Facebook.
deal was the largest acquisition of Facebook.
Originally
investors reacted negatively to the news of the purchase by the company of service WhatsApp, but the course of trading on February 21 marketable securities Facebook played fall and reached a record price of $ 70.11 per share. At the close of the last trading session of the week quotes showed an increase of 2.3% – the price per share of $ 69.63 was Facebook
February 23, 2014
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