{"id":75035,"date":"2013-04-08T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=75035"},"modified":"2013-04-08T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:45:11","slug":"google-looking-to-purchase-whatsapp-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/75035-google-looking-to-purchase-whatsapp-rumour.html","title":{"rendered":"Google looking to purchase WhatsApp: rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is negotiating a purchase of ubiquitous instant messaging application WhatsApp. This is according to information published by Digital Trends, which was fed to them by a claimed inside source.<\/p>\n<p>The source says that WhatsApp is playing hardball and trying to secure close to US$1-billion for the acquisition price.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours are also doing the rounds suggesting that Google will rebrand its chat app to Babel chat, and combine its various communications points under that brand.<\/p>\n<p>Adding WhatsApp to the stable would be a smart way to launch such an endeavour with an established userbase, suggests Digital Trends.<\/p>\n<h6>Full report on <a title=\"Digital Trends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/social-media\/google-acquiring-whatsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Trends<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/74701-nokia-music-launched-in-south-africa.html\">Nokia Music+ launched in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/74531-apps-help-parents-monitor-childrens-internet-use.html\">Apps help parents monitor children\u2019s Internet use<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/74179-open-source-software-group-files-complaint-against-microsoft.html\">Open source software group files complaint against Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is negotiating a US$1-billion purchase of ubiquitous instant messaging application WhatsApp, rumour has it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":75045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,18967,8839,7979,2594],"class_list":["post-75035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-google-babel","tag-instant-messaging","tag-quicknews","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75041,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75035\/revisions\/75041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}