Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced its purchase of messaging app Viber for $900 million earlier today. Based in Cyprus, Viber is used by 200 million people worldwide to make free phone calls ...

Last month, Rakuten (JSD:4755) acquired Viber messaging app in a $900 million deal as the Japanese ecommerce titan tries to diversify and be more social. Today, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani spoke out ...

Mere days after the Skype announced plans to integrate video calling with the Outlook.com web service, Viber has delivered a counterpunch with a new desktop app that lets you make free calls from Mac ...

The Rakuten Viber chat app is adding call screening features that could help you avoid spam, including for calls that aren’t being made through Viber. The messaging app announced Tuesday that its new ...

Recent reports of messaging firm Viber’s acquisition were correct – except for the price and the buyer. It’s not an Asian messaging firm that has picked up the Israeli-Cypriot outfit; it’s an Asian ...

Viber is one of the most downloaded apps in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It is available to download for Windows PCs from Microsoft Store. Viber lets you make free calls and free ...

The Rakuten Viber chat app brought its $2-per-month premium subscription service to the US on Thursday, which provides exclusive features and ad-free access to the chat app. Viber Plus, which launched ...

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Viber, the messaging app owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, has long been dancing around the area of fintech, launching services like money transfer and chatbot payments in various countries ...

SURE, there are plenty of fish in the sea, but finding The One can be a long and winding journey. In today’s online dating ...

Super app Rakuten Viber has announced the launch of Viber Marketplace (vb.me/vibermarketplaceph) in the Philippines. Within the Marketplace tab, Viber users can easily find and quickly connect with ...

Last month, WhatsApp, the hugely popular messaging service that Facebook owns, made end-to-end encryption the default for its 1 billion users. On Tuesday, Viber said it will do the same for the 700 ...