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Facebook Buys What's App For £9.6 Billion


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All part of the big brother thing.

 

All about them knowing our every move.

 

It's like these telematic boxes that are going in cars now for 'safer insurance'

 

Those boxes record where you go when what time and the owners of that data will be sold to McDonald's to tell em where to put drive throughs, petrol stations etc Then they'll tell them when the car is about to break down so Kwik fit or whoever can sell you new tyres...

 

It's all crazy shit man

You're going to be inundated with emails from squid farms, All American Golf and Imodium.

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3/4s of it's in FB shares or something, the rest is cah

 

apparently it has 1M sign ups per day

 

but not in America, not really adopted there at all yet, so plenty potential

 

they basically want to take over the mobile messaging world

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Founder turned down 4 years previously when he applied for a job with FB.

 

That turned into an expensive mistake/good fortune, depending which side your on.

The only real mistake was not buying it 18 months ago, rather than paying top dollar IMO.

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