Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Facebook’s $16 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp came about after a friendly chat between two geeks hanging out in the Valley. Those two friends, of course, were Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp co-founder and chief executive Jan Koum, … Continue reading Two geeks, $16 billion, and a killer Facebook purchase