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| May 5, 2026 | Omnichat Transforms into AI-Native Customer Experience Platform "Omni AI" with Agentic AI Workforce | SINGAPORE, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnichat, the leading omnichannel customer experience platform, today announces its evolution into an AI-Native Agentic Customer Experience Platform with the launch of the upgraded Omni AI. This major ... |
| Dec 29, 2025 | ИИ-поисковики под прицелом: Япония изучает, как нейроответы лишают новостные сайты трафика | Комиссия по справедливой торговле Японии (JFTC) — главный антимонопольный регулятор страны — заявила, что намерена изучить практику использования новостных материалов поисковыми ИИ‑сервисами на фоне подозрений в нарушении антимонопольного з... |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Meta, Volvo and Writers at Work Lead the Conversation on WhatsApp with Omnichat | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnichat, a leading omnichannel AI customer experience platform, recently hosted its Commerce Leadership Forum 2025 Series at the Meta Singapore and Meta Malaysia offices. The forums ga... |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Cracking Asia's Billion-Strong Market: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules for American Firms Few contemporary operators dwell on that first voyage as often as Valentin Saitarli. Founder and chief executive of PRAI, he cuts a distinctive figure in the intersection of media and machine intelligence. | In February 1784, a small American ship, the Empress of China, edged out of New York Harbor with ginseng, Spanish silver, and a wager on distance and diplomacy. Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris had backed the venture; Captain John ... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | vivo V60 Kicks Off Global Rollout with Malaysia Launch: Bringing the World Closer with a Next-Level Telephoto Camera | V60 features a 50 MP ZEISS Super Telephoto Camera, perfect for travel, portraits or celebrations, a large battery for day-long power and the V series' most durable design for those who appreciate both style and function.
SHENZHEN, China, Au... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | LivePerson Announces AWS Integration to Unify Voice and Digital CX | LivePerson (Nasdaq: LPSN), a leading provider of trusted enterprise conversational AI and outcome-driven digital transformation, announced today that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate Amazon Connect, a unified, AI-na... |
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| Jul 25, 2025 | Smilegate to Launch New MMORPG "LORDNINE: INFINITE CLASS" on July 31 - Pre-download Begins July 29 | Pre-download available for PC and mobile on the 29th, with official launch on the 31st
Proven success in Korea, LORDNINE stands out for its extensive freedom and strategic combat.
SEOUL, South Korea, July 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global gam... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Line Man Wongnai serves 20% revenue boost in 2023 as losses trim | Premium Content
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Samreen Ahmad · 5h ago · 3 min readLine Man Wongnai serves 20% revenue boost in 202... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Line app operator announces buyback, SoftBank, Naver voting rights to fall | TOKYO :Japan's LY Corp, operator of the Line messaging app, announced a share buyback on Friday that will lower the voting rights of heavyweight joint stakeholders SoftBank Corp and South Korea's Naver.
The capital relationship of the three... |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Yahoo! Car Navigation LINE Yahoo begins providing voice guidance equipped with newly developed high-quality on-device voice generation AI | |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Yahoo! Car Navigation LINE Yahoo begins providing voice guidance equipped with newly developed high-quality on-device voice generation AI | LINE Yahoo Corporation
[Yahoo! Car Navigation] LINE Yahoo begins providing voice guidance equipped with newly developed high-quality on-device voice generation AI
Improved voice quality and volume of voice guidance to support safer driving ... |
| May 23, 2024 | transcosmos and transcosmos online communications help Miyazaki prefecture renovate the LINE Official Account | Miyazaki Prefecture LINE Official Account
Changes rich menus, expands chatbot & keyword search options, adds a push notification feature for disaster-related information, and more
TOKYO, May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- transcosmos an... |
| Feb 21, 2024 | LINE Yahoo! The first 10,000 people who register their receipts on LINE will win “Black Thunder”! Targeted users who are registering receipts for the first time with “LINE Receipt” | |
| Feb 21, 2024 | LINE Yahoo! The first 10,000 people who register their receipts on LINE will win “Black Thunder”! Targeted users who are registering receipts for the first time with “LINE Receipt” | [LINE Yahoo]
If you register your receipt on LINE, the first 10,000 people will win “Black Thunder”! Targeted users who are registering receipts for the first time with “LINE Receipt”
*View in browser* *LINE Yahoo Inc.*
Press release: Febru... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Deals in brief: ProfilePrint secures Series B funding, Line Next bags USD 140 million, multiple China and India deals, and more | ProfilePrint completes Series B round
ProfilePrint, a Singapore-based technology company that has developed a proprietary artificial intelligence-powered food “fingerprint” technology, has announced the completion of a Series B funding roun... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | Line Next secures $140M funding for its web3 platform | Line Next, a web3 unit of the Japanese messaging app Line, raised $140 million in its funding led by Crescendo Equity Partners, a Peter Thiel-backed private equity firm in South Korea, to expand its web3 platform.
The new funding comes near... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | LINE NEXT Decided to raise approximately 20 billion yen to expand the Web3 ecosystem | |
| Dec 13, 2023 | LINE NEXT Decided to raise approximately 20 billion yen to expand the Web3 ecosystem | LINE Yahoo Corporation
[LINE NEXT] Decided to raise approximately 20 billion yen to expand the Web3 ecosystem
Largest amount of funding this year in the Asian blockchain and Web3 industry Funding raised from Crescendo, a PE fund invested by... |
| Nov 23, 2023 | LINE hosts 'LUXURY Day', unveiling Marketing Trend Insights for High-End Brands | BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past several years, the interest in and popularity of the use of the LINE platform for business purposes has increased continuously. Even high-end brands are no exception. This categ... |
| Nov 15, 2023 | 【LINE Xenesis】グローバルNFTプラットフォーム「DOSI」のリニューアルに伴うNFT関連サービス終了のお知らせ | LINEヤフーのグループ会社として暗号資産事業およびブロックチェーン関連事業を展開するLINE Xenesis株式会社（以下 LINE Xenesis）は、LINE Xenesisで展開する「LINE NFT」、「DOSI Wallet」などのNFT関連サービスを2024年1月5日より順次終了いたします。なお、今後のNFT関連サービスはグローバル NFT プラットフォーム事業の運営を行う LINE NEXT Inc.(以下 LINE NEXT)が2024年１月10日に提供開始... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Korean internet giant Naver eyes North America, Europe as it grows its C2C marketplace business | Did you know that Google isn’t the top search engine in South Korea? It’s not even a close second.
Most Koreans actually prefer Naver for various reasons, and they like it so much that the search engine holds about 56% of the market, per St... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $80m for virtual restaurants, Pat Brown’s new venture | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve unicorn status with a massive Series B round. Virtual restaurant/cloud kitchen startups like Not So Dark and CloudEats continue to rake in t... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | LINE MAN Wongnai secures $265 million in recent funding round, aims to become regional | LINE MAN Wongnai secures $265 million in recent funding round, aims to become regional
LINE MAN Wongnai announced that it has raised $265 million in a Series-B investment round, enabling the company to strengthen its position in the food de... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Food Delivery App Becomes Thailand’s Newest Unicorn After $265 Million Fund Raise | Line Man Wongnai is among Thailand's fastest growing food delivery startups.Courtesy of Line Man Wongnai |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Animoca Brands’ Japan unit raises $45M at $500M valuation for NFT push | Asia’s crypto games and web3 investment powerhouse Animoca Brands is making inroads into Japan as its local unit picks up $45 million in financing at a $500 million pre-money valuation.
The investment, which was shelled out equally by the p... |
| Jul 16, 2022 | NFTs Focused LINE NEXT Announces Investment Agreement with 10 Partners | LINE NEXT Inc., LINE’s venture dedicated to developing and expanding the global NFT ecosystem, announced that it has signed a strategic investment agreement “worth about $10 million with 10 companies.”
As noted in an update shared with CI, ... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Line launches NFT marketplace in Japan | BlockchainConsumer TechNews
Roehl Niño Bautista · 14 Apr 2022 · 1 min readLine launches NFT marketplace in Japan
Japan-based messaging app Line has launched its NFT marketplace with around 40,000 tokens up for grabs.
Photo credit: 2nix / 12... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | LINE Co., Ltd. LINE Research adds “hobbies / interests” items for detailed targeting of LINE advertisements to the WEB aggregation function of “Light Course” as an analysis axis. | LINE Corporation
LINE Research adds “Hobbies / Interests” items for detailed targeting of LINE advertisements to the WEB aggregation function of “Light Course” as an analysis axis
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Visualize the target dis... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Line to launch NFT marketplace in Japan next month | BlockchainNewsStartups
Samreen Ahmad · 1d ago · 1 min readLine to launch NFT marketplace in Japan next month
Messaging app Line will launch an NFT marketplace on April 13 in Japan, reported CoinPost.
Called Line NFT, the marketplace is affi... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | LINE Co., Ltd. LINE NEXT announces partner companies for building a global NFT ecosystem | LINE Corporation
LINE NEXT Announces Partner Companies for Building Global NFT Ecosystem ……………………………………………………………………………………………
Promote the spread of NFT by concluding global partnerships with 26 companies in the fields of games, entertainment... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | LINE’s crypto asset trading service “LINE BITMAX” will give you a “LINK” worth up to 240,000 yen every week when you clear the mission | LINE Corporation
LINE’s crypto asset trading service “LINE BITMAX” will give you a “LINK” worth up to 240,000 yen every week when you clear the mission Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, a part of the spread is returned with crypto asse... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Z : Announces “2030 Carbon Neutrality Decl… | Z Holdings Corporation (hereinafter "ZHD") hereby announces its "2030 Carbon Neutrality Declaration*1," a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions) from the business activities of the entire ZHD Group... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Line to launch NFT service LineNext next year | Japan-based messaging app Line Corporation, which is wholly owned by Z Holdings, will launch NFT service next year via its new organization LineNext to provide the marketplace for companies and individuals to trade NFTs globally, excluding ... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Z : 【LINE】LINE Announces the Advanced Opening of E-Commerce Platf… | ● Teaming up with NAVER, LINE oversees business operations, including sales and marketing
● Features are being optimized based on feedback of early joiners ahead of an official launch expected in spring 2022
● Stores can link to LINE Offici... |
| Jun 11, 2021 | LINE Rolls Out Its Third Digital Bank in Indonesia With Hana Bank | LINE Financial Asia, an affiliate of LINE Corporation, announced the launch of its digital banking platform in Indonesia, in a collaboration with PT Bank KEB Hana Indonesia, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Hana Bank.
This is the third market ... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | LINE : Releases Second Half 2020 Transparency Report | ■ Provides information such as requests from law enforcement agencies and a breakdown of publicy disclosed data
■ Updates ongoing initiatives to further increase transparency
TOKYO - June 9, 2021 - LINE Corporation ('LINE') today released a... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Line launches digital banking platform in Indonesia | Line Corporation, best known for its messaging app, launched a digital banking platform in Indonesia today. This means Japan-based Line Corp. now offers banking services in three of its biggest overseas markets: Indonesia, Thailand and Taiw... |
| May 31, 2021 | Line is next in line for digital banking in Indonesia | Line Bank is entering Indonesia to offer digital banking services. Officially called Line Bank by Hana Bank, the service is built upon a 2018 acquisition—a 20% stake in Bank KEB Hana Indonesia that was acquired by Line subsidiary Line Finan... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | Z : ZHD Holds Second Special Advisory Committee on Global Data Go… | On April 13, 2021, Z Holdings Corporation (hereinafter referred to as 'ZHD') held the second Special Advisory Committee on Global Data Governance, a committee consisting of external experts to verify and evaluate the handling of data from s... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | Z HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Z : ZHD Holds Second Special Advisory Committee on Global Data Go… | On April 13, 2021, Z Holdings Corporation (hereinafter referred to as 'ZHD') held the second Special Advisory Committee on Global Data Governance, a committee consisting of external experts to verify and evaluate the handling of data from s... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | transcosmos and transcosmos online communications begin to help Takahashi city, Okayama provide municipal information using LINE | Takahashi City LINE Official Account Rich Menu For increasing people moving into the city, Takahashi city will deliver the right information tailored to the needs of different types of audiences such as people considering a move to the city... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | transcosmos and transcosmos online communications assist Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture, to provide municipal information including child care support using LINE | Sakata City LINE Official Account Rich Menu This LINE Official Account enables users to receive only the necessary information by selecting the type of information, where to live, and their children’s birthday, for making the citizen’s live... |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Japan’s LINE Starts Crypto Lending Service | LVC, the crypto exchange operator and blockchain business unit of LINE, is launching a service that allows users to lend crypto assets like bitcoin and ethereum to its exchange BITMAX. In return, lenders will receive a rental fee, which is ... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | LINE Launches Digital Asset Wallet and Blockchain Development Platform | Messaging giant LINE has launched a wallet for users to manage digital assets and a blockchain platform where developers can issue their own tokens, tokenize digital assets, and run decentralized applications (dapps).
LINE’s development pla... |
| Jan 7, 2020 | XRP Gets Delisted from Crypto Exchange Owned by Japanese Messaging Giant LINE. Why Did It Happen? | Contents A blow to XRP in its major market XRP goes through the roof
According to NewsEnquire CEO Jaymin Shah, cryptocurrency exchange BITBOX notified its users about delisting XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency, from its platform.
@bitb... |
| Oct 7, 2019 | Japan's Nomura Invests in Line's LVC to Develop Blockchain Financial Services | Japan's oldest brokerage has formed a blockchain-focused partnership with the operator of the country's most popular messenger.
In an announcement dated Oct. 4, Nomura Holdings, the parent company of Nomura Securities, said it made an inves... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | Messaging App LINE’s Crypto Exchange Goes Live for 80 Million Users in Japan | Messaging app LINE has officially launched a cryptocurrency exchange service for its 80 million users based in Japan, days after the platform received final regulatory approval.
The Shinjuku-based messaging provider, which is 73.36-percent ... |
| Sep 11, 2019 | A Look at Line and Nomura’s Zero-Commission Online Brokerage in Japan | Line Securities Corporation, a joint venture between Asian financial services group Nomura Holdings and Line Financial Corporation, the financial services arm of Internet firm Line Corporation, has launched a new mobile investment service t... |
| Jul 17, 2019 | 5 Recent Stories Shaping Korea’s Blockchain Ecosystem | South Korea’s attempts to put itself on the map in the world of blockchain seem to be bearing fruit more and more lately. |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Line teams up with Visa to boost its mobile payment service | Messaging app Line has partnered with Visa to bring traditional financial clout to its mobile payment service.
The deal will see Line Pay become compatible with Visa’s 54 million merchant partner locations worldwide, boosting the service ou... |
| May 16, 2019 | Chat app Line is adding Snap-style disappearing stories | Facebook cloning Snap to death may be old news, but others are only just following suit. Line, the Japanese messaging app that’s popular in Asia, just became the latest to clone Snap’s ephemeral story concept.
The company announced today th... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Can LinePay Become Japan’s WeChat Pay? | Line Corp., the Japanese mobile applications and Internet firm operating Japan’s most popular messaging app Line, has invested US$182 million into its digital payments unit Line Pay Corp, according to a filing.
The move follows a challengin... |
| Feb 26, 2019 | Blockchain Hong Kong Ecosystem Map 2019 | The Fintech Association of Hong Kong’s Blockchain Committee has launched its mapping of the city’s companies engaged in blockchain. The map was built by contribution of many of the organization’s members and lead by a working group of the c... |
| Feb 4, 2019 | Chat app Line injects $182M into its mobile payment business | Japanese messaging app company Line is pumping 20 billion JPY ($182 million) into its mobile payment business as it tries to turn things around following a challenging year in 2018.
The company announced the infusion into Line Pay, a subsid... |
| Jan 29, 2019 | Chat app Line’s mobile payment service is getting its own Visa card | Brown, Cony and the gang are coming to a credit card near you in Japan. Line, the messaging app company behind the cute sticker characters, announced today that it is bringing its payment service to plastic through a tie-in with Visa.
Line ... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | Competition Heats up for Japan’s Mobile Payments Market | Mobile payments is rapidly becoming a dynamic market in Japan as the government pushes to increase cashless payments to 40% of transactions by 2025 from 20% in 2016. |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Facebook Reportedly Developing Crypto Stablecoin Targeting India’s Remittance | Facebook is reportedly working on a cryptocurrency for global payments on its WhatsApp messaging app. The project will first focus on the Indian remittances market, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
Facebook is developing a st... |
| Dec 21, 2018 | Japan’s LINE acquires Thai e-commerce platform Sellsuki and partners with KBank | Line Corporation, the Japanese developer of messaging app LINE, has announced its acquisition of Sellsuki, a Thai e-commerce platform for handling payments, sales, inventory, chat system, and after-sale service, for an undisclosed amount.
T... |
| Oct 31, 2018 | Chat app Line’s games business raises $110M for growth opportunities | Messaging app firm Line has given up majority control of its Line Games business after it raised outside financing to expand its collection of titles and go after global opportunities.
The Line Games business was formed earlier this year wh... |
| Oct 31, 2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, October 31 | THE CHALLENGER
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| Aug 31, 2018 | Messaging Giant LINE Is Launching Its Own Cryptocurrency | UPDATE (09:55 UTC, Aug. 31, 2018): This article has been updated to include a comment from LINE on the technical aspects of the blockchain.
Messaging giant LINE has become one of the first publicly traded companies to have launched a propri... |
| Aug 31, 2018 | Japanese Messaging Giant Line Launches Its Virtual Currency And Blockchain | Japan’s most popular messaging platform, Line, has officially launched its customized virtual currency, and in-house blockchain.
According to an official press release on its website on Friday, the messaging app firm announced the launch of... |
| Aug 31, 2018 | Chat app Line hopes its own crypto token can solve its user growth problem | Line, the Japanese messaging app firm that’s best known for its cutesy characters and stickers, is pushing deeper into crypto after it launched its own token to help grow its stagnant user base.
Line went public two years ago with 218 milli... |
| Aug 17, 2018 | Două noi fonduri de investiții în startupuri de criptomonede și blockchain | Aproape 200 de milioane de dolari urmează să fie investiți în startupuri care activează în zona criptomonedelor și în general a tehnologiei blockchain, cea care stă la baza bitcoin, prin două noi fonduri de investiții de capital de risc anu... |
| Aug 15, 2018 | Messaging Giant LINE Launches $10 Million Token Venture Fund | Japanese messaging giant LINE has launched a token venture fund with a capital commitment of $10 million via its recently established subsidiary called Unblock Ventures.
The publicly traded firm announced the fund in a release on Wednesday ... |
| Aug 15, 2018 | Messaging firm Line launches a dedicated crypto fund | Messaging company Line is continuing to burrow deep into the crypto space after it announced the launch of a $10 million investment fund.
The fund will be operated by Line’s Korea-based blockchain subsidiary Unblock Corporation, which is ta... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Line merges NextFloor with Line Games publishing division (updated) | Earlier in July, Japanese mobile messaging firm Line Corp. acquired a majority stake in game developer NextFloor, and it has now merged the NextFloor brand into its Line Games publishing division. With NextFloor, Line Games plans to expand ... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Line merges NextFloor with Line Games publishing division (updated) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Earlier in July, Japanese mobile messaging firm Line Corp. acquired a majority stake in game developer NextFloor, and it has now merged... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Monday, July 2 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, July 2.
Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies rocket explodes in flames seconds after liftoff in Hokkaido. The unmanned 1-ton rocket developed by a Ja... |
| Jun 29, 2018 | LINE to launch its own cryptocurrency exchange | Japanese messaging giant LINE is set to enter the cryptocurrency space, launching a Binance-like exchange as soon as next month.
The exchange, called Bitbox, will allow users to buy and sell “30 or more cryptocurrencies” at launch, though i... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Messaging Giant Line to Launch Crypto Exchange in July | Line, the company behind a popular messaging app, announced Thursday that it will open a cryptocurrency exchange in July.
The new exchange, known as BitBox, was unveiled during a conference held this week in Japan. Notably, the exchange won... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Chat app Line to launch crypto exchange in July but it won’t cover US or Japan | Messaging app firm Line has confirmed it will launch a cryptocurrency exchange called BitBox next month.
The company said back in January that it planned to enter the crypto space with an exchange, but today it said that the BitBox service ... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | Line Pay App to Launch Cryptocurrency Services | The provider of a popular messaging app in Japan, Line Corporation, has announced the launch of a new company that will provide digital currency services.
The new company, dubbed Line Financial Corporation, will provide a platform to transa... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | SoftBank buys into Line’s mobile service in Japan | SoftBank is partnering up with messaging app Line to help develop its Line Mobile telecom service.
Line announced that it has agreed to allow SoftBank to take a 51 percent in the business via an issuance of new shares. The deal is expected ... |
| Jan 31, 2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 31 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
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| Jan 30, 2018 | Chat app Line announces plan for cryptocurrency services, loans and insurance | Line, the messaging app with around 200 million monthly users, is embracing bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to fend off increased competition from Facebook and others.
The Japanese company today announced the creation of a new financial ... |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Line to acquire Japanese mobile video ad platform Five | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile messaging giant Line announced it will acquire Tokyo-based mobile ad tech company Five. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
A ... |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Line to acquire Japanese mobile video ad platform Five | Mobile messaging giant Line announced it will acquire Tokyo-based mobile ad tech company Five. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
A subsidiary of South Korea’s biggest web operator, Naver Corp, Line has grown to more than 220 million use... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Facebook Messenger will soon let all businesses send sponsored messages | Facebook today announced that sponsored messages are being rolled out to more businesses. The Messenger ads were initially made available to a small number of businesses but will become available to all businesses in the coming months, the ... |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Facebook Messenger will soon let all businesses send sponsored messages | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook today announced that sponsored messages are being rolled out to more businesses. The Messenger ads were initially made availab... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Line launches $125 Clova Wave smart speaker in Japan ahead of Amazon and Google | Mobile messaging giant Line has officially entered the smart speaker fray with the launch of the Clova Wave in the company’s native Japanese market.
Similar to other devices on the market, the Clova Wave allows users to control music playba... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Line launches $125 Clova Wave smart speaker in Japan ahead of Amazon and Google | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile messaging giant Line has officially entered the smart speaker fray with the launch of the Clova Wave in the company’s native Jap... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | TalkIQ raises $14 million Series A to give enterprises AI insights into voice communication | There’s no shortage of startups building their brands around AI for enterprise. And within the enterprise, few spaces are as competitive as AI-powered voice analytics. TalkIQ is the latest company in the space to carry home a large round of... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | How some of the major tech companies are deploying chatbots | Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Slack have all made chatbots a key part of their strategies
2016 was the year that chatbots went mainstream, with companies like Kik launching their own bot stores, and companies, such as Shopify buyi... |
| Jul 26, 2017 | Line’s Q2: Fewer active users but profits leap off rising ad revenues | Not every social messaging player can hope to grow into a mega platform. And Japan’s Line Corporation looks to have reached a peak in user growth — even as it shows it can grow revenue and generate rising profits off of a shrinking user-bas... |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Google Assistant has advice for Father’s Day…from real dads | The AI-powered Google Assistant has some advice for human dads. Say “Advice from dads,” and the intelligent assistant will play advice to new or future fathers from real dads. Sometimes the advice is practical, like keeping absorbent materi... |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Google Assistant has advice for Father’s Day…from real dads | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The AI-powered Google Assistant has some advice f... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | How does LINE make money? | One of the most popular messaging apps, Tokyo-based LINE makes money through advertising and content
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| Oct 19, 2016 | Messaging giant Line to target businesses amidst sluggish consumer growth | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A little more than three months after its dual IPO, mobile messaging giant Line has announced plans to enter the business communication... |
| Oct 19, 2016 | Messaging giant Line to target businesses amidst sluggish consumer growth | A little more than three months after its dual IPO, mobile messaging giant Line has announced plans to enter the business communications market as it struggles to grow its user-base in the consumer realm.
The Tokyo-based tech giant has ente... |
| Oct 14, 2016 | 5 Mobile Payment Methods in Thailand that you Must Know | Fintech services in Thailand, in recent years, are growing exponentially. In the world in general this is one of the fastest growing markets, but Asia seems to be taking up Fintech in larger numbers than ever before.
In Southeast Asia in ge... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Line invests in U.S. and French VC funds as the Asian messaging giant seeks growth in the West | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hot on the heels of its dual IPO back in July, mo... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Line invests $45 million into Snapchat clone Snow | Line, the messaging company that went public in the year’s highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, a Snapchat clone focused on Asia.
The deal sees Line... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Line invests in U.S. and French VC funds as the Asian messaging giant seeks growth in the West | Hot on the heels of its dual IPO back in July, mobile messaging giant Line has revealed plans to synergize with local startups in the U.S. and Europe, as it seeks to expand beyond its four core markets in Asia.
Through a subsidiary, Line Pl... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Chat app Line backs VC funds to unlock global growth opportunities | Chat app company Line is investing in international opportunities after it announced that it is backing two VC firms outside of its home-turf in Asia: DAG Ventures in the U.S. and France-based Korelya Capital.
Line, which went public in a b... |
| Jul 18, 2016 | Line, the newly public messaging app, has funded at least 9 U.S. startups | Line, the popular Japanese messaging service that went public last week on both the NYSE and in Japan, partnered on a fund a couple of years ago with the New York-based venture firm Collaborative Fund in order to gain more of a foothold in ... |
| Jul 15, 2016 | IPO: Line Raises $1.1 Billion on NYSE | Line Corporation, the global platform for mobile messaging and communication services, content distribution and advertising, began trading on July, 14, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “LN,” after its initial pu... |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Understanding Line, the chat app behind 2016’s largest tech IPO | Line, the mobile messaging app from Japan, is going public today in a dual Japan-U.S. IPO that could raise as much as $1.14 billion. The listing, which will happen in New York on Thursday and Tokyo on Friday, is set to be the largest from a... |
