How can job luck turning.
sale price is higher than Iceland’s gross domestic product, or the market value of the entire Sony, colleague Marius Jørgenrud in digi.no writes in this commentary.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging app on smartphones, available at all leading mobile platforms. Beside the text messages users can send pictures, video, audio clips and map references.
I have been using since the service was established in 2009, but after Apple released its iMessage in 2011 and with its Facebook Messenger, Whats App largely been left alone on the phone. But just under my radar service has grown tremendously. Whats App has more than 450 million users. 70 percent use the service daily. Soon sent several instant messages via WhatsApp than with SMS worldwide.
WhatsApp do with the market for SMS on mobile phones the same as Skype did to fixed telephony.
While Facebook has managed to take a strong position on instant messaging in the U.S., it is WhatsApp dominates in Europe and in fast-growing mobile markets like India, Brazil and Mexico, writes TechCrunch.
Mark Zuckerberg would therefore not risk fail in an attempt to oust WhatsApp, and opened his wallet instead. Kara Swisher at re / code believes this is the price for not having its own mobile operating system, as Apple and Google. One must instead try to buy mobile dominance in other ways, and lately it has become increasingly clear that Facebook metastases on a strategy of multiple, independent mobile applications that share user data. The acquisition of Instagram and now WhatsApp, and the launch of Messenger and Paper, pointing in the same direction.
But where is the business model?
What is it who get Facebook to pony up an amount for WhatsApp roughly equals that Google paid for Motorola mobile company AND the Microsoft paid Nokia’s mobile division?
Facebook supposed to earn their money on advertisements, and there are no ads in Whats App, which users use free the first year and then pay one dollar a year. The founders even say that “hate advertising,” and the promise that the service will remain ad-free.
But it hangs probably add up, however.
The Facebook bought is not only a popular mobile app and dominance in a specialized appmarked, but also close to 450 million phone numbers, many of them with their names entered upon registration.
An overwhelming majority of these will also be Facebook users, and many have already upon registration took the opportunity to connect their WhatsApp account together with friend list on Facebook. Have they not done so voluntarily provide Facebook of that happening now, in the background.
And when these databases are linked together, it becomes “big data” with the soaring market, so this blogger speculates .
Suddenly Facebook knows more about who you are, where you are, who you interact with, how you intend revel and what you plan to do there. Although the contents of the messages are not stored, it is unlikely that Facebook will allow the ability to automatically read the message traffic in real time go by, and later use this link to advertisers. That’s how I do it with search, email and other site content that users generate, and that’s the way Facebook does in its other applications.
How to Obtain Facebook itself an immensely powerful tool for targeted advertising to mobile users.
Not even Google has something similar.
Privacy, you say?
There is no one who reads using wild conditions anyway. Therefore, many of us already several times agreed to our digital lives vacuumed commercial value. Probably the updated version of WhatsApp Conditions contain a formulation similar to the Facebook-owned Instagram uses:
We will not clean or sell your information two third parties outside Instagram (or the group of companies of wooden Instagram is a party) without your consent, except as Noted in this Policy.
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