Viber Purchased By Japanese Conglomerate Rakuten For $900 Million

Humberto Saabedra

Viber-logoMobile VoIP and messaging service Viber has been officially acquired after a week of preliminary denials by the service. The service will now be a part of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten’s new push to diversify into new digital businesses. Viber currently has 300 million registered users, but it has never released figures for monthly active users since its inception. Currently, Viber is available on multiple mobile platforms, including the desktop and functions as a rival to Microsoft’s Skype.

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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