Mark Zuckerberg At 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress: WhatsApp Worth More Than $19B

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company’s $19 billion acquisition of cross-platform mobile messaging company WhatsApp during his keynote at the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, and he also pretty much ruled out another run by Facebook at photo-messaging service Snapchat.

ZuckGSMAKeynoteBannerFacebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company’s $19 billion acquisition of cross-platform mobile messaging company WhatsApp during his keynote at the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, and he also pretty much ruled out another run by Facebook at photo-messaging service Snapchat.

Zuckerberg said during his keynote, as reported by TechCrunch:

If we can do a good job with WhatsApp (and) grow it, it will be a huge business.

Why were we excited to do this together? It was the Internet.org

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