Whatsapp: message understood?!

http://video.ft.com/3231552737001/WhatsApp-message-understood-/mostpopular

Does the price paid for whatsapp really worth?! Is it insane?! How could this investment be profitable?!

These questions are the heart of the interwiev.

First of all the interwieved focuses his attention on the 'dark side' of the operation, he said in fact that the first way in which everybody can evaluate this operation is taking the price and dividing by the number of users. '40$ for user' is an exorbitant amount and this kind of investment, that doesn't produce a prospering cash flow, seems like a flop. But how could whatsapp produce cash flow?!

There are three ways:

First of all increasing price of the mobile messaging startup could energize the cash flow. This is an impratical way because the high level of competitiveness would cut off whatsapp from the business. The introduction of advertaisments would produce the same results. The only way that could justify this kind of investments is: use whatsapp to support Facebook. 

The old isolated Facebook will be replaced with a new one, and this will protect the cash flow that facebook alternatively would lose. 

Keep calm Social Network, united you stand, divided you fall.

                                   Luca Luciani

Lesson 1 19/02/2014

Correction
I want to learn as much phrasal verbs as possible.     many

Much 
-UNcountable nouns and singular nouns

   We don' t have much time left.
   We have to preserve as much petrol as possible.
   In the room there was too much smoke.

Many
-Plural nouns

   There were too many people in the bus.
   There are not many dishes left to clean.
   We had many good ideas.

Stage = apprenticeship, training period, internship, work experience

Renzi Listening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDgjwTbVCBg

- To be out of recession: Uscire dalla recessione
- Slump (of business activity) to decline suddenly; collapse
    synonyms: depreciation, declination, economic stagnation, depression
- The market will take it well: Il mercato apprezzerà
- To cutback: to reduce or make a reduction
- In a row: consecutivamente
        For the third time in a row, Usain Bolt wins the 100 metres sprint.
 - To press ahead with something: Accelerare, procedere, promuovere.
       The new government must press ahead with reform.
 - To make headway: (To make progress, to improve)
        We need to do some economic reforms if we want to make headway in this crisis.
- To bide your time: (to wait patiently)
        He has to bide his time, then his efforts will be recompensed.
- To oust a rival
        They want to oust the regime.
        

The most connected man in the world

As everybody knows, Mark Zuckerberg bought whatsapp last week.
During last days the name of Facebook CEO is on everyone' s lips and this is the direct evidence of how is this trading important.
Some consider a folly the amount of money paid for the most widespread and popular mobile messaging startup, and I guess many of you here were astonished reading the "price" paid for the startup. The purchase price is insanely high for a startup with only 55 employees, the $19 billion valutation means Facebook believes WhatsApp is worth over $42 per user.
Thus the question arises: Is whatsapp worth $19 billion?
Gordon Kelly on Forbes shows us some reasons why Whatsapp' s valuation is really worth:

First of all the author underlines how is important both for social networks both for
mobile messaging startups the growth potential: the deal Facebook CEO stressed "There are countries [such as] Korea or Japan where another messaging service is bigger, but if you look across the world, WhatsApp – across Europe, Latin America, India, a lot of places in Asia – is the clear leader.". There are places in the world in which Whatsapp is not (for a little while yet) the market leader, and I mean contries like Japan, China, North Korea where Whatsapp has plenty of competitors like Line, WeChat or Kakao Talk. In this sense the amount paid for Whatsapp seems tiny. If we consider the importance and the support that Facebook could give to the spread of WhatsApp across the world (in particular across the developing countries) and the growth factor, the purchase is a very good deal.
Now Mark takes over control of the social connection, but he has to pay attention, not all that glitters is gold.

                                                                                                                          Luca Luciani

Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/02/20/5-key-reasons-whatsapp-is-worth-19bn-to-facebook/