Facebook EMEA VP Nicola Mendelsohn Discusses Acquisitions Of WhatsApp, Oculus VR

Facebook Vice President for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Nicola Mendelsohn discussed the company’s recent acquisitions of mobile messaging platform WhatsApp and immersive virtual reality technology company Oculus VR at the Fortune Most Powerful Women International conference in London.

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According to Fortune, Mendelsohn pointed to WhatsApp’s base of more than 500 million monthly active users, many of them in developing markets, saying at the London event:

We want to make the world more connected. (It is) not the best user experience for people to just do everything in one place (on Facebook).

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