There are already numerous fact-checking initiatives across Asia that comb through news articles and public social media posts, but messaging poses its own unique challenge in the fight against ...

Line is finally getting serious about security after it added encrypted chat options to its messaging service today with an update that is reminiscent of rival app Telegram. The new feature is live on ...

You may have heard of stickers, the cutesy, cartoonish version of emojis, but did you know that they can also be a money-spinner? Japanese mobile messaging app Line ...

Japanese messaging app Line is going strong — it revealed today that it has now passed 400 million registered users. This means it has tacked on 100 million users in about five months, given that its ...

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 ...

The Japanese telecom giant, which owns 45% of Yahoo Japan's parent company Z Holdings, and South Korean internet company Naver, which owns 73% of Line, are in the final stages of negotiations for a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Silicon Valley trends in Asia. Like any smartphone junky, the moment my plane touched down in Jakarta, Indonesia, I ...

Messaging app Line is the latest to launch a group video chat feature, and when it says group, it really means it. The app supports conversations with up to 200 of your nearest and dearest friends.

It’s not a stretch to say we’ll all be speaking to AI-powered digital assistants in the future. But who will build the assistants we use the most? Till now that battle has been waged by tech giants in ...

Messaging app giant Line revealed Thursday that it’s set to launch a mobile Internet service using its own SIM cards. Called Line Mobile, it’ll launch in Japan this summer. There’ll be no charge for ...

Luxury fashion and auto brands in Thailand have turned to selling their products on Japanese chat app Line amid the coronavirus pandemic, tapping the country's growing appetite for social commerce, a ...

After raising more than $1 billion in an IPO earlier this week, shares in the Japanese message app Line soared to 36 percent by midday trading on Thursday, in the company's market debut. Investor ...