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EU unconditionally approves Facebook's 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp

Www.sihai.com on September 27th, WhatsApp, founded in five years, may change its ownership. After the EU unconditionally approved Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp for $19 billion, Facebook will provide the founders and employees of WhatsApp with about $3 billion of restricted stock, which will be issued over four years. However, some users worry that Facebook will form a monopoly and raise the price after acquiring WhatsApp.

In February 2014, Facebook announced that it would buy WhatsApp, an instant messaging app, for $19 billion in cash and stock. That includes $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in Facebook stock. At present, WhatsApp has more than 450 million users, accounting for 70% of active users, and more than 1 million new registered users a day.