QUOTE(yok70 @ Feb 21 2014, 01:06 AM)
FB has fear of losing users, Whatsapp is a fierce enemy. The best way to fight this is to make the enemy my friend. 19b is nothing if comparing to losing users. They must have plan for some kind of integration, so that FB will be alive. Whatsapp may become just an app from FB, or just a function, a chatting function. By doing this, all Whatsapp users based will become FB's. Take a look at Nokia today. Once you loss market attention, you are dead and very very hard to recover. In another 1 year time, Whatsapp active users number estimation will be equal to FB's, that scares the hell of Z.

I think what will get most investors worried is how WhatsApp is able to make back that money.
For what I understand Whatsapp charge 0.99 cents on their per pay service,
which current 300million users only they might make 300million dollars, but 19billion?
There is no adds or anything like that in whatsapp from what I understand.
They might develop it further since Mark Zuckerberg fail to purchase SnapChat
What I hear from bloomberg this afternoon is that Only 2% of americans uses Whatsapp, most of them just prefer to use text messages. But in Europe, South East Asia, users are up to about 80++%
China on the other hand has a very low user rate as well due to WeChat , and Korean they have their own Chat App as well.
So based on the 2% of Americans and with FB's publicity on Whatsapp, there is a very high chance it can grow.