Facebook must spend an additional $ 3 billion to complete the purchase of WhatsApp

After nearly a year of negotiation and waiting for the decision, yesterday WhatsApp officially went to Facebook with a price of up to 22 billion USD, up 3 billion USD compared to the previous estimate. It is known that the price fluctuates because the stock value of this social network fluctuates.

Earlier this year, Facebook said its intention to buy WhatsApp at a price of $ 19 billion made many other OTT services worry. At the present time, WhatsApp has more than 600 million monthly users (active user), owns good service, friendly user interface easy to use, this free messaging application is always in the top of OTT in the world. .

Besides WhatsApp, rival Viber has also returned to Japan's "notorious" retailer Rakuten . This shows that Internet start-up companies have very good development and great potential, which is a delicious piece that any big man wants to own.

In this deal, Facebook uses 4.59 billion dollars in cash and 178 million shares to buy WhatsApp. After returning to Facebook, Jan Koum ( WhatsApp founder ) continues to be the CEO of WhatsApp and cum additional position Director at Facebook with salary equal to Mark Zuckerberg is . 1 USD. In return, he will own 24.9 million preferential shares of Facebook ( about $ 2 billion in cash ).