Sixteen billion dollars. That’s what Facebook paid for Whatsapp, and it’s only one of the strange numbers we talk about on this episode of Conversely. Other topics include beavers, underwater basket weaving, the proliferation of cheap manure, electric space vehicles, arachnoid robots, Tony Iommi, bitcoin gambling, mobile fibrous infrastructures, and the onset of angle dangle disease. Clearly delirium has set in.
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Show notes:
- Spotify, Pandora and Other Streaming Music Services Will Never Be Profitable, Says Study – hypebot
- Digital Music Subscription Services: 2013
- Spotify seeks to hire U.S. filings expert as bankers eye IPO | Reuters
- Shazam-Branded Music Label On the Way
- Warner Music Group and Shazam Announce Landmark Strategic Alliance – Shazam
- Episode 22, in which we talk about Lyor Cohen’s 300 Records
- Episode 23, in which we talk about Shazam’s success in television
- Why Facebook Thinks WhatsApp is Worth $16B. | MIT Technology Review
- Why Rakuten Bought Viber – DailyFinance
- Things that are cheaper than whatsapp
- Twitter / jherskowitz: 1 WhatsApp. “@AlexPham: Will …
- Back in June of 2012, the CEO of Whatsapp wrote this: Why we don’t sell ads. We’ll see how long it takes Zuck and Co. to tear that one apart.
- Google Fiber Blog (SAVE US, GOOGLE!)
- City of Nashville’s economic development outlook doc, which Google Fiber points to as evidence
- More info on Google Fiber, including pricing
- And here’s that thing that Mike forgot about SXSW
