The Shabtai family (Benny, his brother Gilad, and Gilad’s son Ofer) received $500 million from the sale of their 55.2 percent interest in Viber. Rakuten announced the acquisition of Viber Media for $900 million on February 13, 2014. Viber claims that no sensitive user data was accessed. The Syrian Electronic Army defaced Viber’s support system on July 24, 2013. They put $20 million into the firm, which at the time had 120 workers. Individual investors, Marco describes as “ friends and family,” first supported the firm. User payments for Viber Out phone calls and the Viber graphical messaging “sticker store” debuted in 2013. Viber did not produce any money in its first two years of operation. Viber, unlike Skype, which is based around a “buddy list” and requires registration and a password, provides immediate calling and syncing with contacts since the ID is the user’s mobile phone number. Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha joined the firm shortly after. The firm was based in Israel, but majority of its development was outsourced to Belarus to save money on labor.
Marco and Magazinnik are also co-founders of iMesh, a peer-to-peer file-sharing and media client. Marco and Magazinnik, buddies from the Israel Defense Forces where they served as chief information officers, launched Viber Media in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2010. Marco sought help from his buddy Igor Magazinnik to solve the problem. Living apart yet chatting constantly resulted in exorbitant phone costs. Talmon Marco’s fiancée was stationed in Hong Kong at the time, while he was living in New York City. Viber was created in 2010 to address the issue of long-distance dating. London, Manila, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo are Viber’s offices. Rakuten Viber has been the company’s name since 2017.
The software was created in 2010 by Viber Media, a company located in Cyprus acquired by Rakuten in 2014. The network has over a billion registered users as of 2018. Viber Out, a premium international landline and mobile calling service, allowing users to share media such as photos and video records in addition to instant chatting. Users are recognized and registered using their cell phone numbers, however the service is also available on desktop platforms without mobile connectivity. It is available for Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. Rakuten or Viber Viber is a freeware voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) software program developed by Rakuten, a Japanese multinational corporation.
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