WhatsApp says acquisition rumors are false

WhatsApp is not interested in selling to Google, or anyone else for that matter.

Following rumors that Google was in talks to buy the mobile messaging service for US$1-billion, the mobile messaging service’s business development head Neeraj Arora told AllThingsD that the company was not holding sales talks with Google.

The original story came from Digital Trends, which claimed that WhatsApp was “playing hardball” in the negotiations.

WhatsApp is no stranger to buyout rumors. Back in December, Facebook was the company said to be trying to get its hands on the mobile messaging platform. At the time, the company called the reports “not factually accurate“.

WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by ex Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum. The company delivers more than one-billion messages a day and has more than 200-million users with more than 100-million downloads on Google’s Play store alone.