there are only 55 people who make whats app work. martha: before you go, what does this company do and why does facebook want it and pay so much mom i for it. international messaging. free for the first year. 99 centser is person after that. they have users going to a billion. martha: 99 cents sounds like a good deal. we ll see how they make money for it. thank you very much, stuart. got it. can you imagine waking up on thursday morning worth $7 billion while you weren t yesterday? labor market seems to beholding steady despite two months of weak hiring. number of americans filing for unemployment benefits dipped slightly to 336,000 last week. that is not as big of a drop as economists had expected. brutal winter weather, snow and ice was blamed for lagging job market in december and last
will be dramatic. on their website, they keep a website to raise munoney for brn and update people who are watching this and trying to raise money for his 24-7 care. they say he is exhausted trying to recover. they tried to make light and said no one is going to be that good looking when they talk about the stent in his head. he has seizures and trouble with memory still. and he is somebody who is having a long recovery and will never fully recover from this brutal beating. hopefully the family gets justi justice. brian is in our our 3rd quart s quarters thoughts and prayers new video from the unrest in
month, may once again be keeping americans from looking for work or getting out of the house to try to file unemployment claims. martha: so we re just getting started here this morning. and a scary scene at a church service to tell you about when a roof collapsed, sending dozens of teenagers to the hospital. oh, man. will it ever get built? keystone pipeline and all the oil and jobs for this country. now that wait could get a whole lot longer. what happened in one state that may be a big setback as the pressure builds on the president of the united states to finally make a decision on that. martha: what will he decide? somebody is now $425 million richer this morning. at least before taxes but it really doesn t matter with all that money. where the winning powerball stickket was sold. did you buy it? just waking up? better check your numbers. we ll be right back. when you have diabetes like i do,
know ground in colorado. martha: well, facebook shelling out $19 billion to buy the text-messaging service called what s app. the deal highlights a trend among new technology companies creating massive wealth with virtually no job creation to speak of. facebook is worth $170 billion. only needs 6,000 people though to make it work. what sapp, only 50 employees to spread that money around. stu varney joins us, host of varney & company from the fox business network. you felt it is a important deal announced today. this is astonishing deal. this company is valued at $19 billion and only got 55 employees. at this price, at this value, what s app is worth more, about the same as macy s or the gap or sherwin-williams. it is worth more than victoria
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