WhatsApp screens for Android
Source: Google Play
Obviously, the big winners of the week are Jan Koum, Brian Acton and the 50-odd employees that make up WhatsApp, the mobile messaging application that just sold to Facebook for more than $16 billion.
Note, however, the other big winner in the deal: Sequoia Capital, one of WhatsApp's biggest backers since the company's founding in 2009.
For more analysis of the blockbuster deal, read the whole story at Re/code.
(Read more: An outrageous price for WhatsApp? Hang on ...)
—By Mike Issac, Re/code.net.
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