The war between instant messaging applications is served, because after the recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, LINE takes positions and applies to buy LIVEa VoIP application in which Wechat has also shown interest.
The amounts that are speculated on the possible purchase of VIVER by LINE is between 300 and 600 million and if the sale is confirmed LINE would gain ground in instant messaging applications offering complete coverage and competing directly with Skype and What's app.
VIVER could be bought by LINE
The incursion of new messaging applications has also influenced consolidated apps wanting to expand their service coverage to maintain their status on the different platforms where they operate.
VIVER is one of the VoIP applications that has competed directly with Skype and its acquisition by a messaging application such as LINE may mean the final takeoff it needs to lead the first position in user preferences, since it has currently increased its active account rate after the sale of What's app on Facebook in two million users.