2 days agoChinese giant was close to buying whatsapp before Facebook
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Facebook shocked the world when it bought the Anjuta Mail app for a huge sum of money, or more precisely when it decided to pay over $19 billion for this embezzlement in 2014. WhatsApp was an initial business with millions of users across the globe and was seen by other technology companies like [...]
WhatsApp was an initial business of millions of users across the globe and was seen by other technology companies as a potential purchase target at the time.
One of those contenders was the Chinese software giant Tencent, creator of the WeChat.
In a recent interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Tencent CEO Ma Huateng found that his company was close to finalising a purchase of Whatsapp, but at that time he was subjected to a back operation and delays until recovery made Mark Zuckerberg take this business out of hand, because the large social network intervened quickly and finalised the acquisition.
