The logo of free messaging app Line and it's sticker characters is pictured at the Line Corp's press briefing venue in Urayasu, east of Tokyo October 9, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files By Joshua Hunt ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Line Corp said its number of monthly active users fell from the previous quarter, its first such decline, underscoring the messaging app operator's struggles to grow outside ...

Demonstrating the strength of its massively popular Line messaging apps and services, NHN Japan — the Japanese arm of Korean search giant Naver — announced today it is to split gaming and Internet ...

Messaging is no longer just about messaging. Last year saw the West wake up to the potential of messaging apps — largely thanks to Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp — and 2015 is the year that U.S.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Chat app Line, dominant in Japan and a few other countries around the world, has launched a music streaming ...

LVC Corporation, the digital asset- and blockchain-focused arm of Japanese messaging giant Line, is allegedly close to obtaining a crypto exchange operating license from Japan’s financial regulator.

A Japanese messaging app operator is set to launch the biggest tech IPO of the year. Line Corp., which operates messaging app Line, will list its shares in New York on Thursday and then in Tokyo on ...

According to Nikkei, messaging app Line and Yahoo Japan are about to merge and form a single tech company. Despite the name, Yahoo Japan is currently 100% owned by Z Holdings, a company that is ...

Line Corp. surged on its debut in New York and Tokyo this week, raising $1 billion – the largest tech IPO this year. The Japanese messaging-app operator said it plans to use the proceeds from the ...