By Greg Morcroft - Facebook’s has asked the EU to review its plan to buy Internet messaging service WhatsApp a report on Wednesday said.
The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday that instead of risking potential long-term delay to individual country review of the deal, that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has asked the EU to review the deal.
The paper reported that the EU declined to comment on the report.
In February Facebook said it would buy WhatsApp for about $16 billion.
WhatsApp has more than 450 million users a day with 70 percent of those users using the application on a daily basis. The WhatsApp team will remain in Mountain View, Calif.