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Viber is one of the top five most downloaded smartphone phone call and messaging apps, and counts the United States, Russia and Australia among its biggest markets.Viber is a secure, private, fun messaging and calling app, connecting over a billion people worldwide! “Developing this messaging system on our own would have been impossible,” he added, saying Rakuten users could, for example, use Viber’s instant messages to contact an online store while considering a purchase. The all-cash deal was announced after Rakuten reported an 80 percent jump in its 2013 operating profit. will take Rakuten to a different level,” said Mikitani, who is also the company’s chief executive. Privately held Viber, run from Cyprus by Israeli entrepreneur Talmon Marco, will add 300 million users to Rakuten’s existing 200 million users, Mikitani told reporters in Tokyo.

But in the face of a shrinking population and weak consumer spending at home, Mikitani is trying to re-invent Rakuten as a one-stop-site for a global audience. Rakuten offers services from financing to shopping to online video on its e-commerce platform, the largest in Japan. Viber's Founder and Chief Executive Marco Talmon gestures during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in this Februfile photo.
