NHN Japan sure isn’t losing any time regarding their plan to transform social app LINE into a platform. Following games, a set of social networking features, horoscopes, a greeting card app, a drawing app, and a camera app, the company today announced yet another service based on LINE. With “LINE Coupon”, users are now able…
LINE, the super-popular social app from NHN Japan, is now counting 55 million users, up from 50 million a few weeks ago. According to the company, 25 million users are located in Japan. NHN Japan also discloses that LINE Birzzle, the first social game using the newly introduced LINE platform, racked up 5 million downloads worldwide,…
LINE, the popular messenger app made by NHN Japan, is now available for Blackberry OS, the company announced yesterday. As almost nobody in Japan uses a Blackberry (I’d say the “man on the street” wouldn’t even know what the term Blackberry means), this version was created mainly with the South East Asian user base in…
Mixi posted its financial report for Q1 FY2012, and in a nutshell, things look mixed (no pun intended) for Japan’s biggest real-identity social network. To dive right into it, sales went up 18.5% in the April-June quarter 2012 when compared to the same timeframe last year. Profits even went through the roof: On a quarter-on-quarter…
From today, LINE, the impossibly successful messenger app made by NHN Japan, isn’t a messenger app anymore. As previously announced by the company, LINE is now officially a social network. By that, LINE tries to compete with Facebook. By focusing on mobile and a tight social graph, it tries to compete with Path. By integrating…
LINE continues to amaze. Just a few weeks after hitting 40 million downloads, NHN Japan’s social app passed the 50 million mark (on July 26 Japanese time, to be exact). LINE was first released in the Japanese App Store on June 23, 2011. It took 399 days to go from zero to 50 million downloads,…
NHN Japan caused a big splash yesterday in Japan when the company announced its bold plans to transform LINE into something like a platform for games, music, coupons, books, news, and tons of other content. In addition, the messenger app itself will become more of a Facebook-type of social network after the integration of profile pages…
LINE, a social/messenger app for smartphones and other devices, made by NHN Japan (the Tokyo-based office of the Korean web company), keeps growing and growing. Just a few weeks after hitting 30 million registered users (on April 18), the app reached the 40 million mark on June 6. Growth seems to slow down (NHN Japan reported the 20 millionth…