{"id":42692,"date":"2014-02-20T03:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T03:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_one_of_the_biggest_technology_deals_ever_facebook_to_buy_whatsapp_for_at\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T03:50:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T03:50:24","slug":"in_one_of_the_biggest_technology_deals_ever_facebook_to_buy_whatsapp_for_at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42692","title":{"rendered":"In one of the biggest technology deals ever, Facebook  to buy WhatsApp for at least $16 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable,&#8221; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement announcing the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has been trying to get into the mobile messaging market for a while. The company offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion last year, but that messaging start-up spurned the offer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2014\/02\/19\/facebook-buys-whatsapp\/5617657\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jonostrower\">From Jon Ostrower-<\/a>&#8211;&#8220;Just for a bit of perspective on Facebook and WhatsApp. You can buy 50 777X aircraft for $19 billion, which Qatar Airways did in November.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable,&#8221; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement announcing the deal. Zuckerberg has been trying to get into the mobile<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42692\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,94,589,149,168,119,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}