Bombshell news in the acquisitions field: **Facebook has bought WhatsApp**. Details are scarce, but the news is official.
A few lines and just as few details to give the world truly significant and decidedly unexpected news: Facebook has acquired WhatsApp.
The news is absolutely official, although sparse and lacking major explanations; a press release released on the Facebook Newsroom announces the deal, stating that the amount involved is 19 billion dollars.
It goes on to specify that Facebook and WhatsApp will remain two completely distinct entities, apparently – at least for now, in initial intentions – without any “hybrid” integration mechanisms between the two platforms. In particular, Facebook Messenger will continue to function normally and therefore will not be “replaced” by Facebook.
Facebook is therefore once again making headlines for the consistently high and surprising caliber of its acquisitions: well-studied moves made without much hesitation towards widely used and well-established social environments and applications.
Probably, as a prime example of this, the most striking evidence in this regard is the acquisition of Instagram, a project in tremendous growth and therefore more than attractive to the social network giant. Well, everything has remained as before, there have been no “interferences” or more intrusive inclusions.
In the Facebook press release, it is also specified that Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp and CEO, will join Facebook’s board of directors as a result of this development.
Nothing else is known, but the news, it must be said, is in itself quite significant.
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