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What does whatsapp uses right now to make money? From what i know i dont see any ads there
by cryptozeus 8y ago
What does whatsapp uses right now to make money? From what i know i dont see any ads there
- snthd 8y agoIt doesn't - hence the immense pressure Facebook feels from its owners.
- beagle3 8y agoWhatsApp up until now was not pivoting to a full social network. That, on its own, was worth a lot to Facebook ; if WhatsApp did and was successful, it would have cost Facebook much more than 20B, perhaps closer to 100B in value. Now that FB got their money’s worth of “WhatsApp not competing”, they want to actually profit of it. Also, whatsapp’s Interaction and name database (“metadata”) is super useful to Facebook. Likely not $1B useful, but still a database FB would otherwise pay millions for.