What'sApp has sold to Facebook for more than $19 billion - and in the process has become one of the world's most valuable companies.
The deal - which includes $4 billion in cash, $12 in stocks and $3 billion in further restricted stock - values the company at among the most important assets on the modern internet.
At with about 450 million users, or $42 per user, that's quite a valuation.
To illustrate this, LinkedIn posted a list of companies which are now officially worth less than WhatsApp.
They are:
- Activison-Blizzard –13.9B
- Alcoa –12.2B
- American Airlines –12.3B
- Akamai –10.9B
- AmerisourceBergen –15.9
- Blackstone Group –17.8B
- Campbell Soup –13.6
- Chesapeake Energy –17.2B
- Chipotle –17.1B
- Citrix Systems –10.7B
- Coach –13.5B
- Consolidated Edison (ConEd) –16.2B
- Discovery Communicatons –19.1B
- Dr. Pepper Snapple Group –10.2B
- Expedia -10.2B
- The Gap –19B
- Fidelity –15.8B
- Harley-Davidson –14.1B
- Hertz –11.5B
- Icahn Enterprises -13.1B
- The J.M. Smucker Company –10B
- Kohl’s –11.1B
- Kroger –19.4
- Loews –17B
- Macy’s –19.6B
- Marriott International –15.4B
- Mattel –12B
- MGM Resorts –12.7
- Monster Beverage –12B
- Moody’s –17.08B
- News Corp –10.27B
- Nielsen –17.6B
- Nordstrom –11.4B
- Progressive –14.3B
- Ralph Lauren –14.2B
- Red Hat –11.1B
- Royal Caribbean Cruises –11.4B
- Ryanair –15.5B
- Sherwin-Williams –19.4B
- Southwest Airlines –14.7B
- Symantec –14.4B
- TD Ameritrade –18.4B
- The Carlyle Group –11.1B
- Tiffany & Co. –11.4B
- Tyson Foods –13.1B
- Under Armour –11.4B
- Whole Foods Market –19.3B
- Workday –17B
- Xerox –13.2B