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Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp.The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform.
By 15:50 UTC, Facebook's domains had expired from the caches in all major public resolvers. A little before 21:00 UTC, Facebook resumed announcing BGP updates, with Facebook's domain name becoming resolvable again at 21:05 UTC. [14] On October 5, Facebook's engineering team posted a blog post explaining the cause of the outage.
In 2009, Jan Koum and Acton co-founded WhatsApp, [4] a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion. Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start the Signal Foundation. [5] According to Forbes (2020), Acton is the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $2.5 billion. [4]