Quick Take: What’s Up with Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal?


This article was originally posted on the Knowledge@Wharton website on February 21, 2014. Can a text messaging service have the same value as a company that produces life-saving cancer drugs?...

Facebook WhatsApp Deal: Boneheaded or Brilliant?


Conventional wisdom seems to be seeing that Facebook paid too much to acquire WhatsApp, a mobile texting startup that is enjoying meteoric success in  developing countries. At $19 billion, the...