I’m excited to announce
that we’ve agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be
joining us at Facebook.
Our mission is to
make the world more open and connected. We do this by building services that
help people share any type of content with any group of people they want.
WhatsApp will help us do this by continuing to develop a service that people
around the world love to use every day.
WhatsApp is a
simple, fast and reliable mobile messaging service that is used by over 450
million people on every major mobile platform. More than 1 million people sign
up for WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one billion
people. More and more people rely on WhatsApp to communicate with all of their
contacts every day.
WhatsApp will continue to operate independently
within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain unchanged and the team is
going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next few years, we're going to work
hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that
WhatsApp will add to our efforts forInternet.org, our partnership to make basic
internet services affordable for everyone.
WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and
messaging services to provide new tools for our community. Facebook Messenger
is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for
communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people. Since
WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will
continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone.
WhatsApp had every option in the world, so I’m
thrilled that they chose to work with us. I’m looking forward to what Facebook
and WhatsApp can do together, and to developing great new mobile services that
give people even more options for connecting.
I've also known Jan for a long time, and I know
that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected. I'm
particularly happy that Jan has agreed to join the Facebook board and partner
with me to shape Facebook's future as well as WhatsApp's.
Jan and the WhatsApp team have done some amazing
work to connect almost half a billion people. I can’t wait for them to join
Facebook and help us connect the rest of the world.
Here is the Mark Zuckerberg's post :- https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101272463589561