Google in talks to buy Whatsapp for $1 billion: Report

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2 pointsgkrishnan4 comments

My wild guess is that "Whatsapp" is the anonymous entrepreneur's co Marissa Mayer would have to pay twice than anyone else in today's NYTimes article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5509275

Presumably so they can shut it down?

They'd transfer the users over to Gtalk/Babel, but that's a good thing. They need to unify all their message platforms.

How is google buying apps and forcing the users to use a google bastardised service a good thing?

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