WhatsApp users, you may get surprised or even get shocked when reading it. Google is looking to buy the popular chat application, WhatsApp, according to an inside source.
WhatsApp has been the topic of acquisition rumors before such as in Dec. 2012 when Facebook had supposedly approached the company. Digital Trends has talked with an internal source, which reports that Google is discussing with WhatsApp heads. This conversation has took place already, a month ago. The rumors say that the acquisition price is $1 billion.
WhatsApp gains traffic of 18 billion messages per day. That will not be tough to manage for a web giant like Google. Google is also reported to be developing a single chat platform for all its chat applications, named as Babble. Will this deal also merge WhatsApp in Babble? Well we have no idea, all we can do is wait and watch.
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