Sentences with phrase «mobile messaging app line»

Mobile messaging app Line recently announced they passed the 200 million registered user mark roughly two years after its debut.

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While many global giants, including WeChat and Line are keeping a close eye on their userbase growth in the country, homegrown Hike messaging app is trying to capture the largest chunk of the local mobile messaging market, after crossing over 35 million active users mark recently.

This move by Three, owned by Hutchison Telecommunications, comes after their collaboration with mobile social messaging provider Line to offer apps from NTT DoCoMo, the biggest network operator in Japan.

Their mobile push is in response to huge competition from location - based messaging apps such as WeChat, Momo and Line — which see a lot of dating and hookup activity.

As someone who keeps an eye on tech news worldwide — and particularly in Asia — I can't help but notice the increasing prevalence of mobile messaging apps, and the benefits that snapping up a service like Line, Nimbuzz, KakaoTalk or (less likely) Tencent - owned Weixin (branded WeChat outside of China) would provide.

Rival Line, which recently passed 60 million users at a rate of 5 million new sign - ups per 3 weeks, is the dominant player in the Japanese mobile messaging space but Yahoo Japan — which itself is a joint - venture between Yahoo Inc and operator Softbank — is aiming to bring greater competition, and new monetization streams, by promoting the Korean app through its popular and visible services.

International users of Line will now be able to use the mobile messaging app's virtual currency to buy items after NHN Japan, the creator of the popular service, introduced «Line Coins» to its worldwide userbase.

Messaging apps as alternatives to pricey SMS was a void waiting to be filled on mobile, where apps like LINE, Kakao Talk, Whatsapp, WeChat, Kik, Tango, Viber and others each attract hundreds of millions of users.

We've been saying for some time that mobile messaging is a huge business in Asia and there's yet another proof point as Line, a popular chat app produced by the Japanese arm of Korea's Naver, hit 100 million downloads, just 18 months after launching.

It's well - documented that mobile messaging apps are doing well in Asia and Japan's Line is one of the most pertinent examples.

Line, however, is the dominant mobile messaging app in Japan at the moment, and also offers video games as part of its core app experience.

Line already offers a mobile payment service within the messaging app, called Line Pay.