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Everyone Who Thinks Facebook Is Stupid To Buy WhatsApp For $19 Billion Should Think Again!

Facebook made a breathtaking move yesterday, buying messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion. Even for Facebook, that's a staggering amount to pay for a company with estimated 2013 revenue of only $20 million. It represents almost 10% of Facebook's overall value. And in the wake of the announcement, the usual chorus of armchair pundits took to Twitter to snicker together and pronounce Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, brain dead. But Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19 billion isn't brain dead. It's just bold. Very bold. Like other bold moves, Facebook's WhatsApp deal could end up looking brilliant. Or moronic. That's what makes it bold. If it were guaranteed to end up looking brilliant, it wouldn't be bold. It would be obvious. I don't know how Facebook's WhatsApp deal will end up looking - and neither, it's worth noting, do any of the pundits who are pronouncing it brain dead. Based on everything I do k...

Why Facebook is Blue in Color?

When you open Facebook, the first thing that you notice is the blue color it uses. Ever wondered why is Facebook so blue in color and not changing its color scheme? Ever since they started as 'thefacebook', Facebook has stayed with the blue color. Although major changes have been made in the Facebook theme since then, the major unchanged thing has been the blue color. Facebook from its early days when it was known as  thefacebook An exciting fact : In its earlier days, thefacebook.com required you to have an  .edu email id to join. Everywhere from its login page to Facebook groups, you find only blue. Facebook Login Page. All Blue! The reason for this is that  Mark Zuckerberg, the young founder of Facebook is red-green color-blind and blue is the richest colour for him which he confirmed in an online interview with Leo Laporte. Another important commercial factor for using blue color is the fact that most colors tend t...

How does Facebook Make Money ?

They say its free. They also say that Mark Zuckerberg – the guy who started Facebook – is one of the richest people around – a billionaire apparently. So how the hell does this guy give free accounts to its users and yet sit happily atop a goldmine? The figures going around about Facebook's annual revenue are heart-stopping to say the least. The numbers that did the rounds were all around the US$ 500 million mark, which means that since 2007, they've been more or less doubling their revenue. All this from a  free  website! So where is the money coming from? This article will answer the question, how does Facebook make money and solve the mystery for you. How Facebook Makes Money? Free account notwithstanding, Facebook  is  making money. And lots of it. How does Facebook make money? If only you knew how does Facebook work financially! Ads I'll solve the mystery for you in one simple word – ads. The same thing that runs most websites across the...