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"Nuvilex, Inc. (NVLX) owns exclusive rights to a cancer treatment platform that has successfully completed Phase 2 clinical trials for inoperable pancreatic cancer. Nuvilex ALSO owns rights to the same platform to treat diabetes, and the company also has a medical marijuana subsidiary slated to begin cancer research and development using cannabidiol. With each of the key target markets representing multi-billion-dollar opportunities"
That doesn't mean this company isn't worth their market value. Until their technology is proven not to work they have just the same chances of succeeding as any other biotech firm. The VC firm that invested $25M just validated that they have done their DD and increased the odds of NVLX winning.
Hyped with real product and fundamentals isn't bad. It's when a stock is hyped with vapor is when this kind of swing is bad. People are taking profits but this stock will continue to trend north.
"The 55-employee company, which acts as a kind of replacement for text messaging, has seen its use more than double in the past nine months to 450 million monthly users. That makes its service more popular than Twitter, the widely used microblogging service which has about 240 million users and is currently valued at about $30 billion."
Facebook at its core is building the world's most powerful ad targeting technology that currently only powers Facebook, their first social network. I would expect a lot more acquisitions from Facebook in the next 1-2 years as they start building a portfolio of social properties.
We've seen a glimpse of their strategy, and it's not to create one social network, but to create a suite of social properties and provide the best monetization platform in the world.
Their strategy is something like this:
1) Power identity across all apps, in order to gain as much targeting data as possible. --- Done. Facebook Login is now integrated in 80 of the top 100 grossing apps on iTunes and with the acquisition of Parse, they are geared to own even more developer mindshare.
2) Build first in class ad tech to utilize that interest data and monetize their social properties (Facebook, Instagram, [ add other random social network they acquire ]) -- In progress.
3) Help their partners monetize through a mobile ad network using the same ad tech they use on Facebook owned apps -- This will be v1 when Instagram launches monetization this quarter. I believe Instagram will be the first 'publisher' on the Facebook ad network. -- Facebook has already announced testing of their mobile ad network, though they stopped the tests, I believe it's been deprioritized until they actually get supply restrained.
WhatsApp sends more messages per day than the entire world sends SMS messages per day. Yes, owning the #1 social network and the #1 messaging platform in the world is worth more than YouTube.
"was $32 per user. ", ah no it's not mr. weak DD. $50 per ACTIVE users, who cares about having or claiming you 450 million(nice round fuzzy number there too) users if the other 180 million are not active or shill accounts.
What are you talking about? WhatsApp has 450 million ACTIVE monthly users. Where are you pulling these numbers out of? You want some DD? Here's a quote from Sequia Capital's blog (WhatsApp's investors):
WhatsApp has more than 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history. It was just nine months ago that WhatsApp announced 200 million active users, which was already more than Twitter. Every day, more than a million people install the app and start chatting, and they remain more engaged with WhatsApp than on any other service. Incredibly, the number of daily active users of WhatsApp (compared to those who log in every month) has climbed to 72%. In contrast the industry standard is between 10% and 20%, and only a handful of companies top 50%." Link: http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired
They have the entire world (pretty much, except for Asia) locked up with their messenger.
Right, the rest of the world is only 320 million people besides Asia. Seems you are not only weak in DD, but practitioner of fuzzy math too.
By world I meant the messenger market. And yes, WhatsApp does have the market captured except in Asia.
Also, only fools pay to use a messaging system when there are so many free ones out there now.
So everyone is a fool for paying for SMS? And all of the WhatsApp users must be fools for paying for a service that they derive value from? $1 per year is hardly a lot of money to have real-time messaging with your friends and family across the globe. If they are paying how can you argue with this? Facebook will now have the #1 social networking app and the #1 messaging app... the KINGS of connecting the world. You can't argue that.
And now on top of that agree to Facebook's TOS which includes being able to read your messages and data mine them.
Huh? No one has said that they have to agree to the Facebook TOS. In fact, they have said the opposite and said they are not changing the product and plan to grow it to over a billion users with the same exact model. Why do you just make stuff up?
Explain, why FB tanked afterhours after the announcement that they spent $16 billion to buy Whatsapp? If, the deal is so good why is wall st. selling into it?
Because people like you don't understand Facebook or their vision for connecting the world.
By comparing Facebook to Myspace you show that you have no idea what you're talking about.
That's like comparing Google to WebCrawler. Completely different teams, products, and visions.
WhatsApp could have choose any company to sell to. They were being courted by EVERYONE. They choose Facebook. That tells me a lot about Facebook's vision for connecting the world. They want to be the digital telephone of communication for our era and they are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure they win.
Why was this a good move for Facebook?
* 450M ACTIVE and PAYING users. Users have to pay $1/year to use WhatsApp. This made their engagement numbers through the roof. * They are winning everywhere Facebook isn't. Europe, South America, Africa, etc. * They send MORE messages on WhatsApp than the entire WORLD sends SMS messages per day. Think about that. * Facebook wins back the US/Canada teen market as they have all moved to WhatsApp. Facebook owns Onavo (do some DD here) who is the largest mobile data aggregator in the world, and Facebook knows which apps users are using and which ones are growing the fastest due to this acquisition. WhatsApp was the fastest growing messaging app in the world and Facebook knows this for a fact. * With Facebook's help, WhatsApp could get 1B users by the end of this year. Remember Facebook is the king of paid app distribution, so by giving WhatsApp free distribution they can solidfy their leadership in the messaging space ever faster. That means Facebook would have the #1 social network app and the #1 messaging app in the WORLD. HUGE. HUGE. HUGE.
They have the entire world (pretty much, except for Asia) locked up with their messenger. This is a huge win for Facebook as they were bidding against EVERYBODY. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Tencent, LINE, etc Everyone wanted WhatsApp and they choose Facebook.
Every user on WhatsApp pays $1/year to use the service. So most of their users are incentivized to use the app. Hence why they have HUGE engagement numbers. And they are adding 1M new users PER DAY. With Facebook's help they will more than likely hit 1B users by the end of this year...
By Mark Zuckerberg’s own admission, Facebook is now a mobile company. It used to be a website. Now, first and foremost, it’s a collection of apps.
To cope with this new reality, Facebook is now willing to carve itself into countless smaller pieces, to experiment again with anonymity, and to aggressively pursue, to the tune of billions of dollars, any other company that’s stealing smartphone users’ attention. “In order to make these things really be able to reach their full potential,” Mark Zuckerberg told TechCrunch, “I do think over time we’re going to have to create more specific experiences.” It’s been called the Great Unbundling — Facebook, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is bracing for a post-Facebook world.
This is a natural process for any large tech company — if Microsoft or Apple had never branched out, they might not still exist — but the universe in which Facebook operates is fast moving and unforgiving. Facebook, specifically, is on the prowl for the next big smartphone app, whether it comes from inside the building or not.
What Facebook hasn’t talked about in its anniversary press tour is its secret weapon: At the end of last year, it quietly acquired, for over $100 million, a small Israeli firm called Onavo. The deal was announced and covered at face value: Onavo makes a popular app that cuts down on smartphone data use, and made compression technology that Facebook could use for its new Internet.org initiative, which aims to expand internet access around the world.
But in the months leading up to its acquisition, Onavo had transformed from a data-compression company into a startlingly effective analytics firm. Put bluntly, it had developed the only service that could identify, with precision, how many people were using almost any iOS app...
CEO was Director of Marketing for Minute Maid (Coca Cola) before launching his first beverage company (White Hat Brands, Inc) which was successfully acquired.
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