Back in October, Line Corporation, which operates the messaging app, announced plans for a mobile payments service. Now Line, which has 170 million monthly users, says that the feature, called Line ...

It’s been a busy last month or so for Japan-based mobile messaging service Line, which has announced that it has seen 10 million new downloads since April, taking its total number of registered users ...

Line, the dominant mobile messaging app in many parts of Asia, has just announced that it's updating its service on all platforms to take advantage of end-to-end encryption. This protects the privacy ...

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 ...

Line Corp. surged on its debut in New York and Tokyo this week, raising $1 billion – the largest tech IPO this year. The Japanese messaging-app operator said it plans to use the proceeds from the ...

The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has just released a study on how messaging service Line is systematically censoring politically-sensitive keywords in China on its dedicated Chinese-language ...

Ahead of Snap’s eagerly awaited IPO, Line, one of the U.S. tech IPO highlights of 2016, has doubled down on sister service and Snapchat clone Snow. Line went public in a dual U.S.-Japan IPO that ...

Telefónica has signed a deal with Japanese voice and messaging app developer Line to put the company’s app on Firefox OS devices. The Line application is now available in the Firefox OS Marketplace, ...