SAN FRANCISCO/BARCELONA: Facebook Inc chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg took a victory lap at the world's largest mobile technology conference in Barcelona on Monday, after beating out Google Inc in a US$19bil (RM62.24bil) acquisition of free messaging service WhatsApp. But he faces bigger hurdles on the horizon.
Just 18 months after appearing at risk of getting crushed by the swelling mobile wave, the No. 1 social network is riding high. It gets a huge chunk of ad revenue on world-wide users of smartphones and tablets, from virtually nothing several years ago.