Google refutes bidding on WhatsApp

Google’s Sundar Pichai has denied at Mobile World Congress that his company bid on WhatsApp, the popular mobile instant messaging and SMS app. Pichai, senior vice president in charge of Chrome, Android,

Facebook to buy WhatsApp in a $19 billion deal

Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world’s largest social network closer to the heart of mobile communications