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Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp.The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform.
WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [3] 2009: October: Funding: ... Facebook pays $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, ...
In 2009, Jan Koum and Acton co-founded WhatsApp, [4] a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion. Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start the Signal Foundation. [5] According to Forbes (2020), Acton is the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $2.5 billion. [4]
Nineteen billion dollars is no small sum. That's the amount (including the value of common shares and restricted stock units) that Facebook has agreed to pay for WhatsApp, a multiplatform ...
WhatsApp and Amazon Pay were not immediately available for comment. WhatsApp has hired a top Amazon executive to head its payments business in India, two sources told Reuters, as the messenger ...
And that same year, he & Jan Koum "took a chance" and co-founded WhatsApp together. Then in 2014 after amassing 450 million global users, they sold WhatsApp to Facebook in a deal that reportedly ...
WhatsApp Payments (marketed as WhatsApp Pay) is a peer-to-peer money transfer feature. The service became generally available in India and Brazil, and in Singapore for WhatsApp Business transactions only.
In January 2025, Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit brought by Donald Trump for suspending his social media accounts after the January 6 riots. [111] In February 2025, Meta announced plans to roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, citing shifts in the "legal and policy landscape" in the United States.