Sentences with phrase «rakuten viber»

Last year the corporate name was changed to Rakuten Viber.

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In February, Rakuten Inc. purchased another messaging company, Viber, for $ 900 million, and SoftBank Corp. sought to buy a piece of Naver Corp.'s Line, a similar app that is popular in Japan.

Japan's Rakuten Ichiba has online stores, runs Viber, offers e-money, credit cards, and even travel.

The software was originally developed by the Israel - based Viber Media, which was bought by the Japanese company Rakuten in 2014.

Once Rakuten Super Points are issued to your account, you can use them to watch series and films in Wuaki and to purchase Viber Out credit for your Viber app.

Chat and calling app Viber is another of Rakuten's most prominent acquisitions.

This makes Viber the ideal total consumer engagement platform for Rakuten as we seek to bring our deep understanding of the consumer to vast new audiences through our dynamic ecosystem of Internet Services.

Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten bought Viber last week for $ 900 million.

Rakuten - owned Viber, which has over 900 million users in 193 countries, detailed Chatbase's success with a stickers bot it runs.

There's a global battle for messaging going on right now between Facebook / WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, Tencent's WeChat, Line, KakaoTalk, Google Hangouts, Kik, Rakuten's Viber, and others.

Facebook recently scooped up WhatsApp for $ 19 billion, and Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten recently acquired Viber for $ 900 million.

Fresh from announcing the $ 900 million acquisition of Viber last week, the Japanese e-commerce giant has opened an R&D office in Paris, which becomes its first Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) in Europe.

Rakuten - owned Viber has updated Viber for Android app to version 5.3.0.2274.

It is only in this context — that mobile dominates because our phones are always with us, and that messaging is its killer app — that you can make sense of Rakuten's $ 900 million acquisition of Viber.