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Sale of the Century: Facebook snaps up WhatsApp for $19 billion

George
February 19, 2014
Communications, WhatsApp
In what can be thought of as either sheer Silicon Valley insanity, or a wise defensive move, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg picked up WhatsApp - a four-year-old communications app - for a total price tag of $19...

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