Investors have been waiting to put a price on chat apps since Facebook bought WhatsApp two years ago for $19 billion. Today may be their day. Line, Japan’s popular messaging app, is making its stock ...

Messaging apps often serve as more than chat tools. In many Asian markets they also support payments and commerce inside the same app. Companies are now beginning to add AI agents to automate customer ...

TOKYO, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Japan's Line Corp, creator of the fast growing social messaging app Line, may choose an overseas exchange for an expected IPO next year, banking sources with knowledge of the ...

SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying. By River Akira Davis Reporting from ...

A mechanical engineering student in Taiwan has found the messaging application called Line warns and stops users in China from sending certain politically sensitive keywords. The application is ...