Messaging app purchased for $900 Million USD.
BBC News reported that the popular messaing and voice calling app Viber has been purchased by Rakuten, a Japanese company that owns the website Play.com.
Purchased for the sum of $900 Million USD, Rakuten said that the pruchase will help expand their focus on digital content, also adding that Viber users can also directly contact their online retailers before making a purchase.
With about 200 million users, Viber was initially launched for the iPhone in 2010 as a direct competition to Skype. Since then, it also managed to compete with other messaging apps like WhatsApp and BBM.
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