Following Facebook’s agreement to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, this week, Fortune reported that Google had offered to buy the messaging app the $10 billion. Now, however, The Information is
reporting that the search giant was willing to best Facebook’s final bid of nearly $20 billion. “Last week, Google CEO Larry Page met with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in a last-ditch effort to
prevent the rapidly growing messaging app from selling itself to Facebook,” it reports.
Read the whole story at The Information Daily »