Thursday, October 9, 2014

Facebook has no plans to earn money with Whatsapp – NU.nl

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a meeting in India that his company in the short term has no plans to generate Whatsapp, earnings reports Reuters .

Zuckerberg gave about any details. So it is not known whether Facebook wants to monetize the messaging. Got money in the long run

The social network completed this week the acquisition of Whatsapp off . The initial amount of $ 19 billion grabbed eventually $ 3 billion higher because Whatsapp partly purchased shares in Facebook and which have increased in recent months in value.

Whatsapp director Jan Koum has several in the past informed repeatedly that he wants to show in the Messages app. no ads That promise he repeated in January, shortly after the initial acquisition agreement between Facebook and Whatsapp.

Whatsapp has over 500 million users of which only a limited number each year pay a small amount for use. How many sales, loss or profit booking Whatsapp is not known. Facebook had a turnover of 2.91 billion in the most recent quarter and a profit of 791 million dollars.

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