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Viber has 200M users as of May 7, 2013. Rakuten purchased them for $900M on Feb. 14, 2014. Very similar apps. Although WhatsApp does ask for $0.99 after 1 yea
by bigje54 13y ago
Viber has 200M users as of May 7, 2013. Rakuten purchased them for $900M on Feb. 14, 2014.
Very similar apps. Although WhatsApp does ask for $0.99 after 1 year usage. Not sure that is worth the $18.1B difference in price?
- loceng 13y agoWhatsApp is dominant player, and so they can leverage a higher ask. Not sure it's going to save Facebook in the end though.