Facebook’s WhatsApp buy could finally kill SMS

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If nothing else, we all know what WhatsApp is now.

Paying $16 billion to raise the profile of a mobile messaging app seems a little extreme, even for Facebook. But the Facebook-WhatsApp deal raises the question—again—of whether mobile messaging will finally replace the venerable SMS text message for U.S. users. Check on this article from PCWorld.com