Mere days after the Skype announced plans to integrate video calling with the Outlook.com web service, Viber has delivered a counterpunch with a new desktop app that lets you make free calls from Mac ...

Rakuten Viber and OpenAI Partner to Bring ChatGPT Directly into Messaging SAN MATEO, Calif. and LONDON, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Viber is bringing ChatGPT directly to your fingertips.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced its purchase of messaging app Viber for $900 million earlier today. Based in Cyprus, Viber is used by 200 million people worldwide to make free phone calls ...

Instant-messaging app Viber may not be as widely used as it once was, but the company has made it a mission in the new year to change that. It announced Viber 10, a redesign of the Viber app that’s ...

Viber, the messaging app owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, has long been dancing around the area of fintech, launching services like money transfer and chatbot payments in various countries ...

Nowadays, we're all a bit voyeuristic. We're addicted to reality television, tabloids, and celebrity Twitter feeds. Talmon Marco, founder and CEO of the messaging and voice call app Viber, knows this ...

The Android version of the messaging app no longer sends images and videos without encryption protection, and an iOS fix has been submitted, the company says. Dan Hawke and his friends saw how Telecom ...

Free mobile text and calling platform Viber is branching out to take on Skype with a new feature called Viber Out, which lets you call almost any phone around the world from within the app. Previously ...

Last month, WhatsApp, the hugely popular messaging service that Facebook owns, made end-to-end encryption the default for its 1 billion users. On Tuesday, Viber said it will do the same for the 700 ...

Viber Unveils Simultaneous Expansion to Three New Platforms, Brings Voice Calling to Windows Phone Version, and Adds Localization to iPhone App LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Viber, the leading mobile ...

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