Facebook to partner with whatapp very soon

Mark Zuckerberg
I'm excited to announce that we've
agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that
their entire team will be joining us at
Facebook.
Our mission is to make the world more
open and connected. We do this by
building services that help people share
any type of content with any group of
people they want. WhatsApp will help us
do this by continuing to develop a service
that people around the world love to use
every day.
WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable
mobile messaging service that is used by
over 450 million people on every major
mobile platform. More than 1 million
people sign up for WhatsApp every day
and it is on its way to connecting one
billion people. More and more people
rely on WhatsApp to communicate with
all of their contacts every day.
WhatsApp will continue to operate
independently within Facebook. The
product roadmap will remain unchanged
and the team is going to stay in Mountain
View. Over the next few years, we're
going to work hard to help WhatsApp
grow and connect the whole world. We
also expect that WhatsApp will add to our
efforts forInternet.org, our partnership to
make basic internet services affordable
for everyone.
WhatsApp will complement our existing
chat and messaging services to provide
new tools for our community. Facebook
Messenger is widely used for chatting
with your Facebook friends, and
WhatsApp for communicating with all of
your contacts and small groups of people.
Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve
such different and important uses, we will
continue investing in both and making
them each great products for everyone.
WhatsApp had every option in the world,
so I'm thrilled that they chose to work
with us. I'm looking forward to what
Facebook and WhatsApp can do together,
and to developing great new mobile
services that give people even more
options for connecting.
I've also known Jan for a long time, and I
know that we both share the vision of
making the world more open and
connected. I'm particularly happy that Jan
has agreed to join the Facebook board
and partner with me to shape Facebook's
future as well as WhatsApp's.
Jan and the WhatsApp team have done
some amazing work to connect almost
half a billion people. I can't wait for them
to join Facebook and help us connect the
rest of the world.