Line Appeals to Bookworms With New ‘Line Novel’ E-Books Portal
The Line juggernaut continues today with the app’s makers, NHN, adding free e-books within the social messaging app. While this doesn&...
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Line Has 160 Million Users Worldwide, Its Suite of Apps Pass 23 Million Downloads in Indonesia
Today Japan-based Line held a press conference to talk about the company’s progress in Indonesia. While the company did not reveal its exa...
Discuss: Is Line Wrong to Censor Politically Sensitive Words in China?
Is Line wrong if it were to really censor politically sensitive words in China?
Chat App Battleground in Indonesia Getting Hotter as Line’s New TV Stars Look to Overpower KakaoTalk’s
It’s a fierce battlefield for chat apps in Indonesia. Today, Japan-based Line is going to roll out new ads featuring Indonesian celebritie...
Thailand Now Has 18 Million Social Media Users (INFOGRAPHIC)
Our ZocialInc buddies in Bangkok always keep a close eye on Thailand’s social media scene. In their newest infographic report, the cre...
Zalo Hits 2 Million Users and Plans for 5 Million Soon [INFOGRAPHIC]
I’ve been doing a lot of chat app news in Vietnam lately – the reason is mobile is in a very important growth stage and a lot of for...
Line Targets Kids With Toy Smartphone (PICS)
Together with Takaratomy, the popular mobile chat application is targeting kids with its upcoming Line toy smartphone.
Line Enters E-book Business With Line Manga
Line Corporation popular messaging app, Line, has launched Line Manga yesterday.
Japanese Netizens Have Fun Impersonating Line’s Cartoony Characters [PICS]
Japan-made social messaging app Line sees about 70 percent of users outside of Japan, which is a good rate of global expansion. But the most...
Line Hits 16 Million Users in Taiwan
In a 36kr interview with Frank (no last name was provided) who is in charge of Line expansion into the Chinese market, we got to learn that ...
Line App is Primed and Ready to Censor Politically Sensitive Chinese Words
A few months ago we spotted that Tencent’s WeChat app was censoring certain ‘sensitive’ political words. That turned out to be tempora...
The Growth Story and Future of Mobile Chat App Giant LINE
Popular mobile messaging chat app LINE was created by NHN Japan inspired by the tragic earthquake that happened in Japan in 2011. When SMS a...
Line’s Revenue for Q4 2012 Was $58 Million
For the first time since NHN debuted its popular chat app, Line is publicly announcing its quarterly earnings – and it’s a whopp...
Line is Growing Faster Than Ever, Now Up to 150 Million Users
Far from nearing a saturation point, the messaging app Line is actually growing faster than ever. Having previously taken nearly seven month...
NHN Is Going Into Search In Vietnam
In Vietnam, the chat app battle is fearsome. Western competitors Whatsapp and Viber face serious opposition from Asian rivals like Line, Kak...
Line’s Kawaii Characters Become Animated TV Series in Japan
NHN Japan’s Line mobile messaging app has hit over 120 million users so far. You may or may not agree but I do think its cutesy charac...
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