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Mark Zuckerberg to Jan Koum, April 6, 2013

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From
Mark Zuckerberg
Sent
Saturday, April 6, 2013 9:48 AM
To
Jan Koum
Subject
Rumor

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I assume this isn't true, but can you confirm? http://m.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-acquiring-whatsapp/ If you are thinking of having WhatsApp join another company, we'd of course love to talk at this price range and are almost certainly a much better fit than Google! Separately, we should hang out again sometime soon. I never got back to you about last weekend since I was busy getting ready for the Home announcement. But let me know if you're around in the next couple of weekends.
MZX-000032

About this email

Sent after a press report that Google was in talks to acquire WhatsApp. Facebook announced its agreement to acquire WhatsApp in February 2014.

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