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Facebook just blew your mind, paying $19 billion for WhatsApp, a start-up that has more than 450 million active users, but which drew surprisingly little in the way of buzz ( a conscious decision by the site's founders, it turns out). It's not every day you see a little-discussed, private company go for that much money, and we can already hear the debate about it starting.
Facebook斥資190億美元收購初創企業WhatsApp可能令人大感震驚，但外界對該交易的批評之聲卻出奇的少（這證明Facebook創始人做出的這一收購決定是明智的）。這并不是我們經常聽到的關于“一家名不見經傳的私人企業賣出高價”的故事。我們已經聽到了有關該交易的一些討論。
Here are the raw numbers, just to help inform the debate:
以下是一些原始數據，可以幫你了解相關討論：
$19 Billion The total value of the deal: $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock, and $3 billion in restricted stock.
190億美元：收購交易的總估值為190億美元，其中40億為現金，120億為股票，30億為限制性股票。
$1 Billion Break-up fee should the deal not go through.
10億美元：若交易告吹，Facebook將向WhatsApp支付10億美元解約費。
7.9% WhatsApp's employees will hold about 7.9% of Facebook's total Class A common stock and restricted stock.
7.9%：Facebook向WhatsApp員工發放的Facebook A類普通股和限制性股票將占到Facebook總股本的7.9%。
$104 billion Facebook's valuation at the time of its IPO.
1,040億美元：Facebook在首次公開募股(IPO)時的估值為1,040億美元。
$16 Billion Amount Facebook raised in its IPO.
160億美元：Facebook通過IPO籌資160億美元。
$25 Billion Twitter's valuation at the time of its IPO.
250億美元：推特(Twitter)在IPO 時的估值為250億美元。
$2.1 Billion Amount Twitter raised in its IPO.
21億美元：推特通過IPO籌資21億美元。
$1 Billion Price Facebook paid for Instagram in 2012.
10億美元：Facebook在2012年斥資10億美元收購Instagram。
$8 Million Amount of capital invested in WhatsApp in 2011 by Sequoia Capital.
800萬美元：Sequoia Capital在2011年向WhatsApp注資800萬美元。
2009 Year of WhatsApp's founding, by Brian Acton and Jan Kourn, former Yahoo employees.
2009年：WhatsApp創建于2009年，創始人為前雅虎(Yahoo)員工阿克頓(Brian Acton)和Jan Kourn。
400,000,000 The number of active users, according to a December blog post from WhatsApp.
4億人：據WhatsApp在去年12月份的一篇博文中稱，其活躍用戶數為4億人。
450,000,000 The number of active users, today, according to Facebook's press release.
4.5億人：Facebook的新聞稿稱，目前WhatsApp活躍用戶數為4.5億人。
70% Percentage of users who are active on the app on a daily basis.
70%：上述用戶中的70%每天都在使用WhatsApp。
1,000,000 The company says it's adding more than 1 million new users a day.
100萬人：WhatsApp稱，當前每日新增注冊用戶超過100萬人。
945,000,000 Monthly active users on Facebook, as of Dec. 31.
9.45億人：截至去年12月31日，Facebook的月活躍用戶數為9.45億人。
50 The number of employees at WhatsApp
50：WhatsApp的員工人數為50人。
Five: WhatsApp is the fifth most downloaded app on Android devices.
第五：WhatsApp是安卓(Android)設備下載量排名第五的應用。
Zero Number of ads that appear on WhatsApp. The service doesn't sell ads.
零：WhatsApp上的廣告數量為零，該應用程序不刊登廣告。
