Facebook buys WhatsUp per 19 Billions of dollars… few or too many?!
19 Billions of dollars. Even more than the annual GDP of some countries! Many were amazed .... even in Silicon Valley (!), where the ultra millionaire acquisitions and disposals, are on the agenda.
There are many hypothesized interpretations ( source article on Economyup ) , but none like the one I propose to follow. But let's try to contextualize this mammoth financial operation. With the Datagate and the revelations of Snoweden we are realizing that to spy on everything and everyone, it's not just the NSA, but… all OTT operators to which, the NSA itself was addressing.
This fact is absolutely unacceptable considering the implications that arise for the abuse of the privacy of individuals, of groups and companies and on industrial espionage.
And for this reason, Germany and France, they are reacting ( better late than never! ), even proposing the construction of an autonomous European infrastructure that avoids using the American network ( ie the internet as it works now! ) Furthermore, in Germany, Deutsche Telecom is planning to encrypt voice traffic. Even overseas, Brazil is planning a similar strategy. ( source article about on Key4biz by Paolo Anastasio).
The European Commission ( with frightening delay !!! ) it is beginning to take a firm stance against the American management monopoly: Neelie Kross is spending energy and effort to propose a network management and control model, which also involves Europe. ( source article on Key4biz by Alessandra Talarico ).
We are living in an epochal moment in which the future development of the network will be decided, after over 25 years of complete "freedom from rules", that have transformed it into a real far west.
In this scenario, which until now has allowed the uncontrolled growth of a few operators ( OTT ), thanks to strategies and dynamics that have prevented a free and competitive market, fits this mega acquisition that might seem exorbitant and exaggerated, but so, it is not!…rather…
In light of what has been said in the introduction, who spies earn by being able to profile the market and resell services and products thanks to asymmetrical information that no one else can obtain , thanks to an infrastructure ( Internet ) functioning to facilitate a few "internal" subjects. Anyone who has tried to compete and offer alternative services and products, was blown away. Both for wrong choices, ( subjective element ), than for unfair competition ( variable not controllable by entrepreneurs ... ). Who was to watch and protect, he did not.
And this caused, and it is causing, a job bleeding, the death of companies and the growth of an entrepreneurial inability to compete, daughter of asymmetrical conditions, starting with the fiscal ones!!!!
In this hallucinating scenario, a datum is inserted which is the key to reading this acquisition.
Our data is worth approx 6 euro per month. ( source article on Key4biz by Paolo Anastasio )
I'm 450 millions of Whatsup users.
Spying on the data that "transits" on apps running on "smartphones" will generate 2,7 billions of Euros per month ( O 3,6 Billions of Dollars a MONTH!!!!!!)... let's say that the return on investment is possible in less than 6 months ).
In light of this, there are still many or few i 19 Billions of dollars paid to spy on everything and everyone even on their mobile phones ?!
We can imagine the "economies of scale" that will be generated for FB, having the great opportunity to enter those personal data that his platform could not collect: phone calls, messages, geolocation via gps, mobile e-commerce transactions etc. etc..
Even if the estimates were different, and the most “diluted” figures over time, it remains an unexceptionable reality: whoever is spying on everything and everyone, it is earning unthinkable figures, the result of UNFAIR competition and misleading advertising aimed at driving choices and opinions thanks to information "generously offered" on platforms that are light years away from net neutrality.
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