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Facebook's land grab for customers

Name: Facebook's land grab for customers
Uploaded: 2014-02-20T14:52:23.742Z
Duration: 1 min 50 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: WhatsApp deal is Facebook’s push to own mobile phone home screen

Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp puts it at the heart of the communications world with an application that already has 450m users. Daniel Thomas, FT telecoms correspondent, says the deal shows Facebook wants to own the mobile phone home screen.

February 20, 2014

Filmed by Steve Ager and Petros Gioumpasis. Produced by Daniel Garrahan. Additional footage by Reuters.