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TOKYO, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LINE Corporation, owners and operators of the free calling and messaging app, LINE, announced today that it has surpassed 150M registered users worldwide. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130501/SF05129) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130118/SF44696LOGO-a) LINE was released in June of 2011 as a group communications service available across multiple devices and network carriers. It achieved 100M users worldwide in January...

TOKYO, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LINE Corporation announced that the total download figure for LINE's official camera app, LINE camera, exceeded 30M today. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130422/SF98397) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130118/SF44696LOGO-a) This easy-to-use camera app allows users to edit and decorate photos taken with or saved on their smartphones, then share their finished creations with their LINE friends and groups, as well as other...

LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LINE, the world's leading mobile messaging platform with social network service, today announced that 16 game titles released through its gaming service, LINE GAME, have been downloaded a combined total of more than 100M times in just seven months. With a general increase in users in Taiwan, Thailand and East Asia, and a recent launch in the US, LINE's parent company, NHN Japan, stated that it is aiming to create a global gaming platform....

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LINE, the world's leading mobile messaging platform with social network service, today announced the global launch of LINE Play, an avatar creator and suite of virtual environments that users can customize and use to communicate creatively with their family and friends. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130219/SF61523) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130118/SF44921LOGO) LINE Play avatars can be created in a...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LINE, the world's leading mobile messaging platform with social network service, announced today that it has reached 100M users globally. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/line-mobile-messaging-platform-and-social-network-reaches-milestone-of-100m-users-world-wide-187386851.html Wildly popular in Asia and rapidly growing in North America and Europe, The LINE...

TOKYO, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan Corporation announced on October 25 that its popular free-calling and free-messaging app 'LINE' continued to grow at an impressive rate as the number of its registered users exceeded 70 million* worldwide. The company also reported a steady growth of their other LINE-related services, stating that its focus was now on accelerating its overseas marketing strategy. - Graph showing registered user...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Yahoo has announced they will be closing down their South Korean web portal and ending their presence in the country by the end of the year. According to Jung-Ah Lee of the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Korea released a statement Friday saying the company's operation in that nation had faced "a lot of challenges" over the past few years, and the website's poor performance there had "slowed Yahoo's overall business growth" during...

TOKYO, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan Corporation has announced that its popular free-calling and free-messaging app 'LINE' continued to grow at an impressive rate as the number of its registered users exceeded 60 million* worldwide. NHN Japan said its focus was now concentrated on strengthening alliances with network operators, and increasing the amount of content on the LINE platform. -Graph showing registered user...

TOKYO, Aug. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan announced on August 17 the long awaited release of the BlackBerry version of its popular free-calling and free-messaging app 'LINE', saying that the company is catering the release of this version to users in Southeast Asia, where BlackBerry user numbers remain prominent. http://naverland.naver.jp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/LINE_bb_en.jpg LINE is a smartphone app which allows users to enjoy free calls and messages to one another,...

TOKYO, Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan Corporation announced on August 10 its "LINE camera" -- the official camera app for the free-calling and free-messaging app 'LINE' achieved 10 million* downloads as of August 7 in only 4 months since the service was released. This easy-to-use camera app allows users to edit and decorate their photos taken on smartphone cameras and then to share their finished creations with friends and groups via a range of SNS services. One of the...