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In a bold move that definitely doesn’t suggest that Facebook Messenger is an abject failure or that Facebook big wigs are fearful of competition, social media master Mark Zuckerberg recently slipped $19 billion into the hands of 55 Whatsapp employees. Now, Zuck is the proud possessor of a simple messaging application best known for, err, we aren’t really sure. But we do know that for $19 billion, he could have…funded NASA for an entire year. Or, you know, had a really sweet art collection. <\/p>\n

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Check out Things That Are Cheaper Than Whatsapp<\/a> for more reasons why it makes so<\/em> much sense to spend billions of dollars on a mediocre messaging application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bold move that definitely doesn’t suggest that Facebook Messenger is an abject failure or that Facebook big wigs are fearful of competition, social media master Mark Zuckerberg recently slipped $19 billion into the hands of 55 Whatsapp employees. Now, Zuck is the proud possessor of a simple messaging application best known for, err, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n15 Things That Are Cheaper Than Whatsapp<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mark Zuckerberg actually spent $19 billion on a mediocre messaging app. You know what's cheaper than that? 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