Alibaba is putting some skin in the mobile-messaging game with a $215 million investment in Tango. Mobile messaging apps are hot. Facebook recently scooped up WhatsApp for $19 billion, and Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten recently acquired Viber for $900 million. Tango is a cross-platform app — Android, iOS, Windows Phone, PC and Mac — that allows its 200 million worldwide users to trade messages, place voice and video calls, share pictures and music, and play games using either a wireless phone or WiFi connection.
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Alibaba Takes Tango for a Whirl
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 21, 2014 12:23 PMAlibaba is putting some skin in the mobile-messaging game with a $215 million investment in Tango. Mobile messaging apps are hot. Facebook recently scooped up WhatsApp for $19 billion, and Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten recently acquired Viber for $900 million. Tango is a cross-platform app — Android, iOS, Windows Phone, PC and Mac — that allows its 200 million worldwide users to trade messages, place voice and video calls, share pictures and music, and play games using either a wireless phone or WiFi connection.