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02-19-2014, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp  I have never ever click on an ad on fb........... Not really sure how it actually works. | Companies have to pay just to have the ad come up on your feed, not if they actually click it.
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02-19-2014, 05:38 PM
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make another app similar to whatsapp with no ads
wait til everyone jumps over
sell to FB
profit $$$$$$$$$$$$$
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02-19-2014, 05:39 PM
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#28 | | reads most threads with his pants around his ankles, especially in the Forced Induction forum.
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Originally Posted by sonick Companies have to pay just to have the ad come up on your feed, not if they actually click it. | AWWW ok.
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02-19-2014, 05:46 PM
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#29 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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seems a bit much
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02-19-2014, 06:34 PM
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#30 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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If you're going to invest in tech right now are in companies getting into cloud and other business related services. The rest of these companies are floating on speculation and seriously good luck to investors when you paid billions of dollars for a company which has a potentially to make a few million dollars in profit if that.
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02-19-2014, 07:44 PM
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You never know what life has planned for you. In Brian's case, it was 19 billion. How Things Change | TechCrunch | |
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02-19-2014, 07:58 PM
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#32 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Originally Posted by RevYouUp make another app similar to whatsapp with no ads
wait til everyone jumps over
sell to FB
profit $$$$$$$$$$$$$ | not as easy as you think bro... hahaha
amount of glitches a newbie programmer will have and how will they get the consumer *yes you!* to use their new chat app?!?!
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Originally Posted by dhillon09 that's a great secret date spot,
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02-19-2014, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Verdasco not as easy as you think bro... hahaha
amount of glitches a newbie programmer will have and how will they get the consumer *yes you!* to use their new chat app?!?! | Not to mention, Whatsapp was essentially the first mover in the market. There wasn't any app close to it when it first came out on iphone back in 2008?
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02-19-2014, 08:57 PM
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#34 | | I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
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whatsapp was even available on symbian so they get props from me 
i've never used any of these apps though im fine with what comes on the phone however wechat looks nicer to me im surprised that didn't get picked up instead (basing it on screenshots)
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02-19-2014, 09:16 PM
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#35 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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Remember the Mike function back in the with the walkie talkie style, is there an app like that? That'd be pretty sweet.
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02-19-2014, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by rsx Remember the Mike function back in the with the walkie talkie style, is there an app like that? That'd be pretty sweet. | Think that was dependent on a network feature, Push to Talk IIRC
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02-19-2014, 09:50 PM
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02-19-2014, 10:08 PM
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CNN was saying Whatsapp gets 1 million new users a day.So it's still growing at a crazy rate.
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02-19-2014, 10:14 PM
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#39 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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man is that guy ever lucky. good for him.
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02-19-2014, 10:15 PM
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#40 | | RS controls my life!
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Wow. Fucking Wow.
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02-19-2014, 10:17 PM
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#41 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Wonder who's going to buy up snapchat or will they get investors and try to grow the company themselves and become the next FB.
Breakdown of the #'s:
FORTUNE -- Like many of you, I'm still having a hard time processing Facebook's decision to pay around $19 billion for a four year-old messaging company. In the meantime, some numbers that weren't in the press release:
$19.5 billion.
That's the amount Facebook (FB) actually is paying for WhatsApp, based on today's closing stock price of $68.06 per share. In calculating the overall price, Facebook used the average of the six trading days preceding Feb. 18 -- which worked out to only around $65.27 per share. Facebook shares are off a bit in aftermarket trading, but still above the $65.27 mark.
35%
That's how much of Facebook's cash is being used for this deal. Pretty extraordinary, given that this is mostly a stock transaction.
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That's how many venture capital firms currently own shares in WhatsApp. The lottery winner here is Sequoia Capital, which led the company's Series A round back in early 2011.
$60 million
That's how much we hear that Sequoia invested overall into WhatsApp, over three rounds of financing (only the first of which was ever publicly reported). The bulk of that was part of a $50 million Series C infusion that WhatsApp quietly closed in the middle of last year.
$3.4 billion
That's a ballpark figure for how much Sequoia will make on the deal. My understanding is that it holds a WhatsApp ownership percentage in the "high teens" -- placing it between $3.2 billion (17%) and $3.6 billion (19%).
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02-19-2014, 10:59 PM
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I wonder if Whatapp paid their cleaners with stock options, boy, multi-millionaires overnight. Like how Google/Facebook/Twitter made even their lowest employees multi-millionaires. Quote: |
Facebook has assured Jan and Brian that WhatsApp will remain ad free and they will not have to compromise on their principles. We know that Jan, as a new member of Facebook’s board, will continue to champion the rights of WhatsApp users.
| ...... If no ads, I guess it'd be information/data being sold then.
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02-19-2014, 11:13 PM
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#44 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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is there an app that is like chat roulette but for mobile phone messaging?
i wonder if that'll take off.
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02-19-2014, 11:42 PM
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#45 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by rsx is there an app that is like chat roulette but for mobile phone messaging?
i wonder if that'll take off. | It needs to be a location based random chat app. So yo can connect with random people in your area or in a different location.
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02-19-2014, 11:48 PM
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02-19-2014, 11:49 PM
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#47 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by rsx is there an app that is like chat roulette but for mobile phone messaging?
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Originally Posted by Manic! It needs to be a location based random chat app. So yo can connect with random people in your area or in a different location. | Tinder sounds like what you guys are describing
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02-19-2014, 11:50 PM
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#48 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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Tinder is based on likes and a 'screening' process. This has to be super random and not geographically based. Like you can talk to someone in Europe randomly.
EG: if you're taking a shit and you're bored, you just open the app and someone's there from god know's where in the world.
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02-20-2014, 12:08 AM
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#49 | | I keep RS good
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with the super computers these corporations can afford and with the upcoming quantum computers, the price they pay is little compared to the data they can mine and what patterns of data they can get these computers to crunch out.
they will have info that no one else in the world has access to. or can have access to... except maybe google and NSA a-alikes.
they'll see new patterns of information that no one else can even begin to start to put together. vital information... and in some aspect, live data.
it doesn't take much except to throw in a few creative minds and you'll have an endless list of stuff u can experiment with.
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02-20-2014, 12:23 AM
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#50 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Read a great article on this topic a few weeks ago; Quantum Computing: A Primer | TIME.com
It's downright scary what this computer will be able to do and with FB essentially having so much access to so much private data from almost a billion people you wonder if a tech company will one day rule the entire world.
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