SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton received 116 million shares of Facebook stock currently worth nearly $9 billion when they sold their unprofitable messaging service to the social networking leader earlier this month.The breakdown of the big winners in Facebook Inc.s $22 billion acquisition emerged Wednesday in a regulatory filing.Koum, a Ukraine immigrant who was once living on welfare, reaped the biggest jackpot with 76.4 million Facebook shares now worth $5.8 billion. That makes him Facebooks fourth largest stockholder behind company CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two mutual funds, Fidelity Management and Vanguard.Acton, who worked with Koum …read more
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