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Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
That is an unfair analogy. Those networks make money from advertising. WhatsApp refuses to show ads.
nostrademons
on May 12, 2015
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Facebook has no such compunctions, though, which may be why Whatsapp is worth significantly more to Facebook than it is to Whatsapp.
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