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  Bill Gates: Microsoft would have bought WhatsApp too
Time: 08:26 EST/13:26 GMT | News Source: The Guardian | Posted By: Robert Stein

Facebook bought the five-year-old WhatsApp cross-platform text message replacement app, which sends messages via phones’ data connections rather than SMS, for $19bn in February. WhatsApp is Facebook’s biggest acquisition and showed the importance of the drive to mobile from the desktop for the social network. WhatsApp rebuffed a $1bn offer from Google in April last year prior to the social network’s bid. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg said that WhatsApp was on track to connect 1 billion people which is what made it valuable.

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