![]() Marco and Megzinik are also co-founders of the P2P media and file-sharing client iMesh. įounded in 2010, the company is co-owned by its four Israeli founders: Talman Marco, Igor Megzinik, Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha, who have each increased their investment by over 30 times on the startup's $900 million sale to Rakuten. The company is run from Israel, with much of its development outsourced to Belarus in order to lower labour-costs. The company was founded by Talmon Marco and Igor Megzinik, who are friends from the Israel Defense Forces. Viber Media is a Las Vegas and Cyprus-registered company with its development centers in Belarus and Israel. Viber is currently available in 30 languages and locales: English, Hebrew, Arabic, Albanian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. To use the new feature, users have to visit the "More" tab and choose Viber Out. Viber Out was originally released in November only to help Typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines connect with their loved ones. Therefore Viber users can call people without the Viber app. Viber is also now available on Windows and Mac OSX.Īs of December 2013, Viber Officially launched Viber Out, a feature that allows all users the option to call mobile and landline numbers. The newest version of Viber (Version 2.3) has added smileys and other default images. Since all users are registered with their phone number, the software returns all Viber users among one's contacts. Viber synchronizes with the phone's address book, so users do not need to add contacts in a separate book. Upon installation, it creates a user account using one's phone number as username. The application's user interface includes tab bar on the bottom giving access to messages, recent calls, contact, the keypad and a button for accessing more options. Viber includes text, picture and video messaging across all platforms, with voice calling available only to iPhone, Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone although HD voice is planned for Windows Phone 8. The actual functionality varies from platform to platform with iOS and Android being the first to receive new features. Previously during the installation it was iOS 5.0 and above. Since April 2016, Viber has been increased to minimum iOS 7.0 and above. The sale of Viber earned the Shabtai family ( Benny, his brother Gilad, and Gilad's son Ofer) some $500 million from their 55.2% stake in the company. On February 13, 2014, Rakuten announced they had acquired Viber for $900 million. Initially, only 64-bit binaries were made available for download. In August 2013, Viber for Linux was released as a public beta and in August 2014 a final version. According to Viber, no sensitive user information was accessed. On July 24, 2013, Viber's support system was defaced by the Syrian Electronic Army. Viber with voice was officially released for all Windows Phone 8 devices on April 2, 2013. ![]() On September 22, 2012, HD quality phone calls and hold group-messaging sessions were made available for Windows Phone but only for Nokia users, as part of exclusive partnership with Nokia. The limitation seems to lie in the core of Blackberry OS and Series 40 which does not have easy support for VoIP apps. Initially, the voice calling feature was only available for iPhone and Android applications, with a promise that voice would be added in upcoming versions for Bada, Symbian and Windows Phone applications, with no mention of either Series 40 or BlackBerry OS. Applications for Nokia's Series 40, Symbian and Samsung's Bada platform were also announced on the same day. ![]() On reaching 90 million users on July 24, 2012, group messaging service and HD Voice engine were added to both Android and iPhone applications. Viber for BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices was launched on May 8, 2012. A pre-release version for Android restricted to 50,000 users appeared in May 2011 an unrestricted version was released on July 19, 2012. Viber was initially launched for iPhone on December 2, 2010, in direct competition with Skype. Viber Media is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Belarus and Cyprus, founded by former chief information officer in the Israeli army, Talmon Marco, along with Igor Magazinnik, Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha, with Marco as its CEO.
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