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MG Siegler has been writing recently about the "great unbundling" of Facebook and how mobile apps are increasingly good at one thing only: Instagram at sharing
by bckrasnow 13y ago
MG Siegler has been writing recently about the "great unbundling" of Facebook and how mobile apps are increasingly good at one thing only: Instagram at sharing Photos, Paper for reading the news, and now WhatsApp + Messenger for communication. It's becoming increasingly true as we see Facebook trying to buy the new dominant players in any space that could be a threat in the areas it holds dear: sharing photos, statuses, or anything else it deems important.
I would have to think that the stock drop is due to the price they're paying for a startup that had $8 million in funding.
- notahacker 13y agoThat and the way their announcement basically indicated they were happy to leave WhatsApp and its uber-smart and now-uber rich engineering team alone in its own $1/user/year ad-free bubble, on course to break even some time around the point mobile phones become obsolete. It didn't exactly scream we had to pay that much but we've really thought this through
- neovi 13y agoThere's that, and there's also the type of investors. Since retail investors can trade after-hours, we can assume that the people responsible for the drop are either professionals or retail, which allows for irrational selling. Also, the stock market is a market. So there could be institutional investors shorting bad plays from the individual investors and aggressively selling the stock (since after-hours doesn't have as many traders, it's a good bet to short until market opens tomorrow). The only factors I personally see to determine Facebook's return on investment/share price are 1. $ per user, 2. potential user growth combining Facebook & WhatsApp, 3. time; which all seem pretty lackluster for the amount paid in the acquisition.