LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LINE Webtoon, the popular mobile comic app, launched in the United States and worldwide on smartphones, tablets and web browsers. Fans can now view LINE Webtoon through downloading the app for free on Google Play for Android devices starting today and on iOS devices on the Apple App [...]
Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, announced that Closer, a television commercial aired in Thailand, received a bronze award at the 61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the largest advertising festival in the [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Mobile messenger service Line’s new sales platform, “Line Creators Market” attracts people’s attention and raises high expectations as a new cash cow for the service. According to Naver, operator of the messenger service, on June 17, the sales of Line Creators Market reached 1.7 billion won after just one [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “Snowball,” a mobile ad app that gives out reward points to anyone who makes recommendations to their friends, is gaining popularity from smartphone users. According to Google Play and Apple App Store on June 2, the number of downloads for Snowball on their services is rapidly on the rise. [...]
Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, announced its partnership with United States based Salesforce.com, the world’s #1 CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform. The LINE Business Connect service provides a business-oriented API that includes many of the features of LINE official accounts, and [...]
Tokyo, Japan, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced that it has been named a Global Growth Company in 2014 by World Economic Forum. Global Growth Companies are a community determined by World Economic Forum which consists of companies that have achieved [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to the rising global sales, Naver achieved 638 billion won of sales during the first quarter of this year. Its operating profit and net profit recorded 189.8 billion won and 128.9 billion won, respectively. Over the same period of the previous year, its operating earnings grew 23.9 percent [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic mobile application businesses started to buckle down and knock on the door of the American market. The companies which used to focus on pushing into Southeast Asian markets have changed their course and are steering their way to the United States. According to industry sources, IT [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone technology is now no longer limited to voice and text messaging. Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2009, things have changed for good. For the past four years, there has been the so-called “Data Big Bang” in which people’s data traffic usage has risen in [...]
TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 17, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of LINE, a free call and messaging app, today announced that LINE PLAY has surpassed 12 million users since its global release eight months ago. The service has also undergone a complete redesign to make more user friendly to users worldwide LINE PLAY is an avatar [...]