Facebook has asked European Union antitrust regulators to examine its US$19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, in an attempt to avoid other antitrust reviews by individual countries, t ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
... ng space, Whatsapp is a solid investment in real-time mobile communications, while Slingshot could be another tool to lure the youngster market. Taken together, these three apps could be Facebook's gr ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-20
... ducation. WhatsApp takeover Investors have been concerned that teenage users may be drifting away from Facebook in favor of alternative online services such as Snapchat and WhatsApp, which the company ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-17
... ly active WhatsApp user is worth US$42.22 while the corresponding figure for Facebook is US$142.19. Applying WhatsApp's MAU valuation to Tencent's WeChat would price the Chinese app at US$11.48 billio ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-28
After last week's blockbuster Facebook-WhatsApp deal, the internet industry appears set for more excitement in the coming months. According to media reports, Chinese online media giant Sina Corp. is l ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-26
... platform WhatsApp, Tencent's stock just got an unexpected boost. Mark Zuckerberg is paying US$19 billion for WhatsApp, whose user numbers compare with those of Tencent's WeChat (half a billion at la ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-26
There was no other deal to touch it for the week. On Wednesday, Facebook announced it was paying US$19 billion for smartphone messaging service WhatsApp in a deal that prices each user at around US$42 ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
Talk about a whirlwind romance. It took Facebook 11 days to court mobile messaging portal WhatsApp and one week to hash out the details. Now the parties are ready to live life together. And it all cam ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
If Facebook's US$19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp shows one thing, it's the high value traditional internet firms are putting on a successful mobile strategy. With 145 million users, Facebook would ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-24
... ential in WhatsApp after Facebook deal WhatsApp Inc. may generate an extra US$1.5 billion to US$2 billion revenue each year by tapping into mobile gaming, e-commerce and other social media functions l ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-21
... nched its WhatsApp-like Weixin service. There's more than enough evidence that China Mobile's ambitious app development efforts have failed to meet their goals of creating user stickiness and diversif ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-29
... vals like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger still have a large share in the foreign markets. That's perhaps why Tencent is eyeing Snapchat as the stepping stone. The latter's popularity in US could help ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-29
... s such as Whatsapp Inc. to gain a toehold. Emerging players such as Alibaba's Laiwang and Xiaomi Corp.’s Miliao have been trying to chip away at Weixin which enjoys first-mover advantage through Tence ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-15
