actions are strengthened by the offer of Facebook 19,000 million for WhatsApp, as investors bet that the platform messenger smartphone maker has been undervalued.
This Thursday
titles earned 5.6%, to $ 9.52, after ending Wednesday at around $ 9.54, above the $ 9.01 the end of the session.
agreement between Facebook and WhatsApp yesterday announced increases valuation metrics around messaging service BlackBerry Messaging.
BlackBerry Messaging, or BBM, was a message service for mobile pioneer, but its user base has not managed to keep up with WhatsApp or other new entrants, partly because for a long time refused to open BlackBerry service to users on other platforms.
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WhatsApp, with a user base of about 450 million, has grown rapidly. His service operates in the Apple iOS platform, the operating system Google Android leader and driven operating systems Windows and BlackBerry devices.
BBM remains popular, though BlackBerry devices have lost fame. Late last year, the Canadian company based in Waterloo, Ontario finally opened the messaging platform for users of iPhone and Android mobile devices, and the number of active users of the service has grown to more than 80 million.
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However, investors have little value attributed to the asset within the company. In a note on Tuesday clients, Steven Li, an analyst at Raymond James, he detailed a valuation part by BlackBerry and valued BBM in only $ 240 million, or $ 3 per user, far from the nearly $ 42 WhatsApp was valued in offering Facebook.
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