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		flippant on May 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B That is an unfair analogy. Those networks make money from advertising. WhatsApp refuses to show ads.

nostrademons on May 12, 2015 [–]

Facebook has no such compunctions, though, which may be why Whatsapp is worth significantly more to Facebook than it is to Whatsapp.

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