05-11-2014, 06:49 PM
Viber, the Israeli-founded video and voice communications app, has been acquired by Japanese Internet services company Rakuten for $900 million. Rakuten, an electronic commerce and Internet company, is the largest e-commerce site in Japan, and one of the largest in the world.
The Viber buyout represents the third major buyout of Israeli-founded tech companies in a year. In June 2013, Google purchased Israeli traffic and mapping app Waze for nearly a billion dollars, with IBM paying a similar amount in August to acquire Trusteer, an Israeli cyber-security company.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/japanese-in...-for-900m/
The Viber buyout represents the third major buyout of Israeli-founded tech companies in a year. In June 2013, Google purchased Israeli traffic and mapping app Waze for nearly a billion dollars, with IBM paying a similar amount in August to acquire Trusteer, an Israeli cyber-security company.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/japanese-in...-for-900m/