Who the heck uses WhatsApp? Apparently, over 450 million people a month. I guess that somewhat explains why Facebook is spending a whopping US$16 billion—half the market cap of Twitter—to ...

Facebook made a breathtaking move yesterday, buying messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion. Even for Facebook, that's a staggering amount to pay for a company with estimated 2013 revenue of only $ ...

Facebook stunned the tech world this week when it announced that it was paying $16 billion up front along with $3 billion in vested payments to buy WhatsApp, the incredibly popular messaging app ...

Facebook agreed to buy WhatsApp in February 2014 for over $19 billion (£14 billion) in stock, and the price had gone up to $22 billion (£17 billion) by October, when the deal closed, thanks to ...