Google Offered To Buy WhatsApp For $10 Billion Before Facebook Swooped In With More Money
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But they weren't the only tech giant who wanted to buy in.
Dan Primack has a round-up of the numbers that weren't in the press release Facebook (FB) issued announcing it will acquire messaging service WhatsApp, but according to his Fortune colleague Jessi Hempel, he missed one.
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$10 billion dollars.
Hempel writes,
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Two separate sources have told me that's how much Google (GOOG) offered to purchase WhatsApp. The bid did not come with promise of a board seat, unlike the Facebook agreement.
Google declined to comment, during a conversation with a Fortune colleague.
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