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  • June 2016
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$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!

By: David J. Collis
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:21
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Abstract

Teaching note for HBS No. 715-441 on Facebook's $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship; Finance; Management; Strategy; Communications Industry; Computer Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry

Citation

Collis, David J. "$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 716-472, June 2016.
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