All eyes will be on Facebook & WhatsApp deal to see where it takes both the companies. As for now, Facebook has openly confirmed that it’s not going to use WhatsApp’s interface for any of its future ads. Then what exactly enticed Facebook so much that it decided to finalize this deal and make it as one of the costliest tech deals of the decade? Nobody has a clear answer to that. However, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes the deal will ensure a faster and better internet connectivity to the consumers at a much better price in the future.
WhatsApp was increasingly becoming the largest threat to Facebook. Although Facebook is a much bigger player than this company, WhatsApp’s incredible improvement and continuous evolution as a tech giant stunned this online networking company. For example, WhatsApp’s one single primitive looking app was able to manage almost half as many active users as Facebook just in five years.
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