Posts Tagged: NHN Japan


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The Growth Story and Future of Mobile Chat App Giant LINE

Popular mobile messaging chat app Line was created by NHN Japan, with Japanese and Korean team inspi...

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  • May 15, 2013
  • at 9:08 pm
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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 no...

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  • April 8, 2013
  • at 9:32 am
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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 soc...

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  • February 20, 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 info...

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

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  • January 18, 2013
  • at 1:50 pm
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Japan’s Line Chat App Wants to Reach 300 Million Users in 2013

It was a pretty big year for NHN Japan and its Line chat application in 2012. And according to a Tai...

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  • January 9, 2013
  • at 10:40 am
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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...

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  • January 3, 2013
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‘Line Play’ Virtual World Comes Out of Beta With a Million Users

NHN’s Japan has officially brought it’s Line Play virtual world application out of beta,...

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  • December 18, 2012
  • at 3:35 pm
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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. Ha...

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  • May 1, 2013
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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...

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  • February 26, 2013
  • at 12:59 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. Tha...

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  • February 7, 2013
  • at 2:15 pm
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NHN Japan’s Casual Games Continue to Kill it on Line

More milestones for NHN Japan and its Line chat app, which is continuing to prove its worth as a gam...

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  • January 24, 2013
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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 somet...

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  • January 16, 2013
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Japanese Mobile Social Gaming: 2012 in Review

It has been a pretty busy year in the mobile space in Japan. While the prevailing narrative in most ...

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  • January 4, 2013
  • at 4:35 pm
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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...

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  • December 27, 2012
  • at 9:00 am
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5 Great iOS Apps from Japan in 2012

There have been lots of great applications to emerge from Japan over the past year. And while I canâ...

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  • December 17, 2012
  • at 10:30 am
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