The very popular instant messaging app Whatsapp would be in the sights of Google: there will be soon theacquisition?
Interesting news coming from across the ocean: it seems that Google is negotiating for theacquisition of WhatsApp.
Several US sources are currently reporting this indiscretion, which, if confirmed in every detail, would certainly represent noteworthy news.
Not only because Whatsapp It is a very popular messaging service and widely used all over the world.
In fact, there would be staggering figures at stake that would enrich the developers in the true sense of the word. Whatsapp.
According to rumors reported by American media outlets and in particular by the website Digital Trend, Google's negotiations for theacquisition of WhatsApp They have been going on for just over a month now, on rather high figures: we learn that Google has put around 1 billion dollars on the table.
An internal source is quoted – who for obvious reasons remained anonymous – who reported that the staff of Whatsapp it would instead be aiming for an increase.
If there is a big question mark on the economic details, since these data often remain confidential, from the point of view of the interest of Google for an application like this, however, there is absolutely nothing to be surprised about.
The Mountain View giant is in fact rather lacking from this point of view, not having developed a similar messaging service.
Apple has iMessage, Facebook has Facebook Messenger, while Google has not yet proposed anything similar to what WhatsApp does.
The interest therefore cannot be doubted, just as it seems easy to think that they want to aim at haggling over the price, given that only a few months ago there were rumours of negotiations underway for the acquisition by Facebook, then probably faded away.
A solid foundation from which to negotiate, while we wait to see if Google will bring this popular application to market.
UPDATE April 9: WhatsApp executives denied the possibility of an acquisition by Google, specifying that there are currently no negotiations underway.
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