$19 BILLION FOR WHAT'S IT?

Facebook will buy the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, the company announced. WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum got out of Kiev's “troubling political and anti-Semitic environment" when he was sixteen. “I’ve known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected,” Zuckerberg, who also is Jewish, wrote on his Facebook page. 
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