Line App to Hit Nokia Asha Phones in March, Keen to Chat Up Emerging Markets
Japan-made messaging app Line is keen to chat up users in emerging markets by launching a version of its app for the budget Nokia Asha phone...
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Watch Out Facebook, Asian Messaging Apps Are Gonna Karate Chop You
Facebook is under siege from every direction. Snapchat’s picking away at the young sexting market, Twitter dominated TV sets at the Su...
NHN Japan Focuses on its Chat App With “Line Corp” Spin-Off Company
Regular readers will know that the messaging app Line now has over 100 million registered users. That makes it hugely important to its maker...
Growing Faster than Facebook and Twitter: Key Highlights for Japan’s Line App [Infographic]
Now boasting more than 100 million users on its Line mobile chat app, NHN Japan has released an infographic to commemorate the occasion. Inc...
The Mobile Messenger War: What’s the Score?
Yesterday we pointed out that Chinese chat application WeChat (known as Weixin in Chinese) had surpassed the 300 million user mark. And just...
Survey Says Japan is Now Using Far More Chat Apps
As we pointed out yesterday, 2012 was a pretty big year for NHN Japan’s Line chat app. But if you need further evidence of its popular...
Why the Mobile Messaging War Will Be Even More Intense in 2013
There are so many mobile messaging apps coming out of Asia – KakaoTalk, WeChat, Comm, GREE Messenger, Line, Cubie, and the list goes o...
Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Dec. 15]
There was lots of interesting tech news going down in Asia this week, and particularly in China. The iPhone hit in a few new countries, alth...
Line Launches a New Social Network to Challenge Path, Facebook
The Japan-made messaging app Line is once again challenging Facebook, this time by adding a mini social network for its 100 million-plus use...
11 Hot Mobile Messaging Apps from Asia and How They’re Super-Innovative
With the numbers Rick released on mobile messaging apps growth, and Willis’ post on how heated the mobile messaging battle is getting, I t...
Zalo: Vietnam’s Flagship Mobile Messaging App Has Arrived
If Vietnam’s got a heated battle for messaging app dominance, where is the Vietnamese contender? Well, just a few days ago, Zalo relea...
NHN Japan’s Line Chat App Passes 100 Million Users
As we mentioned in our post yesterday, NHN Japan’s Line application has been slowly creeping up on the impressive milestone of 100 mil...
With Stickers and Shout-Outs, Snoop Dogg Helps Push Line App in the US
Line app experienced crazy growth last year, and looks set to surpass 100 million global users sometime this month. To hit that milestone, a...
2012 Was a Year of Crazy Growth for Japanese Chat App Line
NHN Japan had a pretty crazy year in 2012. In retrospect, things really got busy for the company and its wildly successful chat app Line aft...
Japanese Chat App ‘Line’ Does Gangnam Style
Korean pop star PSY, who recently hit a billion views on YouTube, is being featured by Japanese chat application ‘Line’ in a fun...
Line App Launches in China, Keen to Fight with WeChat
The smash-hit messaging app Line – which is especially huge in Asia – has just made a move into the biggest country in the regio...
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