Five Charts Showing How Chat Apps Joined the Social Media Mainstream

May 15, 2014by Damian Radcliffe Leave a comment

Cross-post originally published on The Huffington Post. Facebook’s recent purchase of WhatsApp took many tech watchers by surprise; not least because of its eye-watering $19 billion price tag. But after an initially […]

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If talk is cheap, why are chat apps becoming such big business?

May 5, 2014by Damian Radcliffe Leave a comment

Cross post from an article first published on LinkedIn. Earlier this year, the news that Facebook had purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion made many people’s eyes water; especially as the revenue model […]

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Damian Radcliffe

Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon

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