Tech
Tips !
-Google offered $10b
in a failed bid to acquire Whatsapp.
-Facebook eventually
acquired Whatsapp for $19b($4b in cash, $12b in stock and $3b in restricted
stocks to founders and employees) translating to a worth of $42 per user.
-Twitter is worth
$140 per user, LinkedIn is worth $153 per user, Facebook is worth $123 per
user.
-On Whatsapp, users
around the world send 19billion messages daily and 1million new subscribers are
ticked daily.
-Whatsapp has a solid
grip on Latin America, Europe and India, regions Facebook is looking
to penetrate.
-Youtube was founded
by three former PayPal employees in 2005 with an initial investment of $11.5m.
-Google paid $1.65b
to acquire Youtube in 2006 which translates to a worth of $48 per user.
-Statistically,
Google's acquisition of Youtube in 2006 is still more expensive than Facebook's
acquisition of Whatsapp in 2014.
-As at December 2013,
daily bandwidth consumption accessing YouTube is more than total consumption
accessing the rest of the internet combined.
-Microsoft's
acquisition of Skype, Facebook's acquisition of Whatsapp and Google's
acquisition of YouTube remain the biggest social media manoeuvres by the 'big
boys' of the industry.
-RIM remain the T-bag
of the industry and only time will tell whether their cross-platform BBM
manoeuvre is a double fault or an ace.
-Google firmly remain
the biggest bully of the industry, making over 140 independent acquisitions
till date.
Some of Google's
victims include Picasa, Orion, FeedBurner, Meebo, YouTube, Android, Motorola
Mobility,...