Will whatsapp appear @ your facebook timeline.........?????
"Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, " a technology blog said citing sources close to the matter.
Social networking Facebook Inc is in talks to acquire popular
messaging app Whatsapp , a move that will beef-up its mobile services
business, says a media report.Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Mark Zuckerberg. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users
"We are still digging around on potential price and other details...," the report said citing sources.
Whatsapp, which was founded in 2009, has 1,000 million daily active users globally and delivers about one billion messages per day.
Facebook has been making efforts to improve its mobile service business and made buyouts including the purchase of photo-sharing mobile app Instagram.
Earlier in July, Facebook
acquired the team behind start-up firm Spool, in an aim to beef up its
mobile business. Besides, the social networking firrm also purchased
Israeli facial recognition firm Face.com in June.
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