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Microsoft also paid $8.5 billion for 663 million Skype users in 2011, which works out to $12.82/user.
by Titanous 13y ago
Microsoft also paid $8.5 billion for 663 million Skype users in 2011, which works out to $12.82/user.
- anges244 13y agoYou are comparing Skype to WhatsApp? Don't you think it's kind of apples and oranges? Skype had technology that Facebook itself uses for video chat and WhatsApp supposedly has a large user base which mysteriously enough is so different than FB user base, that it's worth $16b?
- movingahead 13y agoAs someone who is a heavy user of both Whatsapp, GTalk/Hangouts and FB Messenger, I find Whatsapp to be much faster than others. So, there could be some technological value to this deal. Microsoft had its own Live Messenger and Lync too, so the acquisition in both cases was for the user base and the brand than technology IMO.