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The Vergecast 112: Why Facebook acquired WhatsApp

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The Vergecast is a discussion of all things relevant and irreverent in the worlds of art, culture, science, and technology — and anything else that pops into the twisted minds of this week’s hosts. Join Dieter Bohn, Chris Ziegler, David Pierce, and Ellis Hamburger for a scintillating discussion on latest tech news.

On this week’s episode, we discuss the dizzying sums of money Facebook spent on WhatsApp, the Loop mobile wallet, and Google’s indoor mapping prototype, Project Tango.

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