Posts Tagged: chat app


WeChat Gets In-App Purchases

WeChat Gets In-App Purchases; The Pics Look Slick But Will Users Like This?

Well, you all knew it was coming. The e-commerce train has been rumbling toward the mobile chat app station for months now, and its arrival ...

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  • June 18, 2013
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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...

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  • May 16, 2013
  • at 5:08 pm
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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...

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  • February 7, 2013
  • at 2:15 pm
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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...

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  • January 18, 2013
  • at 1:50 pm
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KakaoTalk Introduces Telkomsel Carrier Billing and Christmas Items

Korean-made chat app KakaoTalk is keeping quite busy this Christmas holiday, introducing two new features on its app: a carrier billing part...

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  • December 25, 2012
  • at 10:00 am
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You’ve Come a Long Way Baby — 1,000 Days of KakaoTalk

Three days ago, December 11th marked the 1,000th day since the launch of Korean-made chat app KakaoTalk. To celebrate that feat, the chat ap...

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  • December 14, 2012
  • at 7:00 pm
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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 ...

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  • May 24, 2013
  • at 10:34 pm
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KakaoTalk Hits Number 1 Spot in Indonesia’s App Stores and is Looking for Local Partners

Sirgoo Lee (pictured right) is a very nice guy. He’s the co-CEO of Korea-based chat app KakaoTalk. When he went onstage at our Startup Asi...

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  • April 9, 2013
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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...

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  • January 25, 2013
  • at 12:00 pm
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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...

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  • January 3, 2013
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Nimbuzz Planning to Join Asia Chat App Wars

Chat app Nimbuzz, which has been around since 2006, recently won two categories in Opera Software’s 2012 Top Apps Awards – the commu...

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  • December 17, 2012
  • at 6:00 pm
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