Messaging apps have the bit time recently, thanks much in part to the buzz surrounding WhatsApp (and it’s almost acquisition by Facebook). But there are a slew of other international products doing ...

The 2-year-old mobile messaging and sticker app, immensely popular in Asian countries, is now trying to take over the rest of the world. Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves ...

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 ...

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 ...

NHN Japan’s Line application, which recently surpassed 50 million users worldwide, has just received a big boost in the top grossing apps rankings. The company’s iOS app was ranked 23rd overall in the ...

A Japanese messaging app operator is set to launch the biggest tech IPO of the year. Line Corp., which operates messaging app Line, will list its shares in New York on Thursday and then in Tokyo on ...