Japanese Internet giant Rakuten buys Viber for $ 900m | News Hi-Tech Business
Rakuten for voice communication - a new field, and Viber will comfortably accommodate it (service supported by all popular platforms: Mac OS, Android, Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Bada, Nokia S40). CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Hiroshi Mikitani (Forbes estimates his state of $ 6.4 billion, businessman holds the fourth position in the ranking of the richest Japanese), commenting on the deal, said that Viber stored "huge potential as a gaming platform in". In addition, Viber are 300 million people in nearly 200 countries, the Japanese company will develop the international market.
Earlier Viber monetyzuvavsya poorly because all the basic features free (except Viber Out). Obviously, Rakuten plans to get out Viber much more - for example, plural of fish by introducing there gaming platform similar to Kik /.
Viber directly compete with WhatsApp, QQ, WeChat and Line - the latter is very popular in Asia, by the end of this year, its management plans to reach 500 million users. In the Line is a commercial platform Line Mall, which allows to sell something through your account messenger. Rakuten much of their income gets it from the online retailers, so it is possible that Viber will be used as a competitor Line in this area.
To purchase plural of fish Rakuten Viber - the biggest, but not the first deal in recent years. In 2012 the company for $ 315 million bought Canadian manufacturer eBooks Kobo, and in September 2013 - streaming video multilingual service plural of fish Viki. Last year Rakuten shares rose in price by 90%.
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Rakuten for voice communication - a new field, and Viber will comfortably accommodate it (service supported by all popular platforms: Mac OS, Android, Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Bada, Nokia S40). CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Hiroshi Mikitani (Forbes estimates his state of $ 6.4 billion, businessman holds the fourth position in the ranking of the richest Japanese), commenting on the deal, said that Viber stored "huge potential as a gaming platform in". In addition, Viber are 300 million people in nearly 200 countries, the Japanese company will develop the international market.
Earlier Viber monetyzuvavsya poorly because all the basic features free (except Viber Out). Obviously, Rakuten plans to get out Viber much more - for example, plural of fish by introducing there gaming platform similar to Kik /.
Viber directly compete with WhatsApp, QQ, WeChat and Line - the latter is very popular in Asia, by the end of this year, its management plans to reach 500 million users. In the Line is a commercial platform Line Mall, which allows to sell something through your account messenger. Rakuten much of their income gets it from the online retailers, so it is possible that Viber will be used as a competitor Line in this area.
To purchase plural of fish Rakuten Viber - the biggest, but not the first deal in recent years. In 2012 the company for $ 315 million bought Canadian manufacturer eBooks Kobo, and in September 2013 - streaming video multilingual service plural of fish Viki. Last year Rakuten shares rose in price by 90%.
3i Startup Award 2013 500 startups Aleksandr Kolesnikov android Apple artfulbits Aventures Capital Bohdan Kupych eCommerce eventinarea events facebook foursquare gamedev plural of fish games Goroboro gowalla plural of fish hit24 hubbub ipo istat Ivan Gerasymchuk ivan ivanusa Lviv Startup Club MagneticOne Max Hryniv Mobile Oleg Mykhailovych Oleksandr Bondar online shop Outsourcing roman Maksymiv Ruslan Savchyshyn Sergiy plural of fish Korzh social network startup startupdb startups statistics Tutorle vacancy vc WishPresent Yaroslav Maksymovych Yuriy Chayka
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