Where the Money Is 10.10.2014
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The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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What's up with WhatsApp? Tech analysts Sean O'Reilly and Nathan Hamilton discuss, plus they chat about the Apple Event and a stock plunge on the tech radar.
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry at makers Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says he's done spending billions |
| 0:04.4 | upon billions of dollars on apps for a while. All that and more on this |
| 0:08.1 | edition of Where the Money is. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello everyone I am Sean O'Reilly. This is Nathan Hamilton and today we are talking |
| 0:17.8 | Tech on this edition of Where the Money is. Nathan how are you? I'm good. How's it going? |
| 0:22.1 | Not too bad. I was really happy when I read all the stuff that we learned to be talking about Facebook and their |
| 0:28.8 | Accus from WhatsApp because I still can't figure it out. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah, 19 billion, huh? |
| 0:34.0 | A little bit for something they charge, what? |
| 0:36.1 | A dollar a year for 450 million users, |
| 0:38.3 | so their revenues generate a whopping 450 million dollars a year? |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah, potentially. |
| 0:43.6 | I mean, no doubt about it's a lofty valuation. |
| 0:47.5 | For sure. |
| 0:48.6 | And actually, it just got loftier, |
| 0:50.5 | which is actually the first major point |
| 0:52.0 | that I want to address with this. |
| 0:53.2 | So what's going on? |
| 0:54.2 | So from the time of the deal actually being announced to closing of it, Facebook stock has increased |
| 0:59.6 | and the fact that they're paying for this transaction with a good amount of Facebook |
| 1:05.0 | stock the value of the acquisition goes up there's some estimate saying around |
| 1:08.8 | 22 billion. Wow. Whereas previously at about 19 billion. |
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