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on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:00AM
from the It's-like-a-telegram-but-on-a-phone dept.
from the It's-like-a-telegram-but-on-a-phone dept.
siliconwafer writes:
"Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp has generated a lot of noise in the financial and tech industries, with some calling the purchase price 'down-right silly' and 'jaw-dropping', and others have said the price is fair, but question the strategy. Is the purchase price evidence that we're entering entering another tech bubble reminiscent of the 1990s? Some say no, while others believe that a bubble may exist only in social media, given that the Global X Social Media Index ETF has outperformed the NASDAQ over the past year."
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Have we entered another tech bubble?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by RedGreen on Saturday February 22 2014, @08:31AM
"Yes, are 12bi in stocks that are overvalued. But anyway, the new owners of this stocks can just sell all and make this amount of money.
I believe the 'stock-used-as-money' thing is only to avoid taxes."
The stock used as money is to avoid using money for the purchase and they cannot sell that stock until it fully vests a term used to describe when you receive stock you do fully own/can sell until some later date. They get to roll the dice on whether Facebook stock will actually be worth anything in I believe four years time is what I read in another article.
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