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Rakuten Snaps Up Viber

Tech giant Rakuten has announced its acquisition of messaging service Viber in a deal worth an estimated £540m. Viber currently boasts 300 million users around the world. Founder Talmon Marco said: “Our vision is to be the world’s number one communications platform”.

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