{"id":166,"date":"2014-02-22T01:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2014-02-22T01:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:21:31","slug":"facebook-acquires-whatsapp-for-19-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/facebook-acquires-whatsapp-for-19-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook acquires whatsapp for $19 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,&nbsp; Facebook buys the WhatsApp and the price is $19&nbsp;billion:<br \/>\n$4&nbsp;billion in cash, about $12&nbsp;billion in Facebook stock, and $3&nbsp;billion in restricted shares, to pay out to WhatsApp employees over the next four years. For a five-year-old company with 50 employees, that translates into $380&nbsp;million per person\u2014and a heck of a haul for the startup\u2019s venture investors, led by Sequoia Capital. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, a former Yahoo! employee, will join Facebook\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,&nbsp; Facebook buys the WhatsApp and the price is $19&nbsp;billion: $4&nbsp;billion in cash, about $12&nbsp;billion in Facebook stock, and $3&nbsp;billion in restricted shares, to pay out to WhatsApp employees over the next four years. For a five-year-old company with 50 employees, that translates into $380&nbsp;million per person\u2014and a heck of a haul for the startup\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,5,19,30,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps-n-software","category-business","category-innovation","category-marketing","category-social-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}