That adventure turned out to be a 450 million - user
mobile messaging giant and the largest - ever venture - backed deal.
Mobile messaging giant Line has officially entered the smart speaker fray with the launch of the Clova Wave in the company's native Japanese market.
Not exact matches
The tech
giant plans to invest a part of the proceeds from its Alibaba stake in the popular
mobile messaging app.
Most of China's tech
giants, including instant
messaging and gaming company Tencent,
mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging
giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.
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.
As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce
giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's
messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new
mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's
mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.
Riding the undercurrent this year is the HTC Cha Cha
mobile phone, which is a device with which the
mobile giant promises to satisfy an exceptional growth in social networking and instant
messaging.
The social
giant rolled out a new settings page for its
mobile app on Wednesday, and also added a new dashboard called «Access Your Information» where users can find all the stuff they've handed over to Facebook — like photos and comments and
messages — in one place.
Today's landmark goes some way to explain why Japanese
mobile games
giants DeNA and GREE — two billion dollar companies in their own right — have both jumped into the
mobile messaging space.
Korean instant
messaging giant Kakao earlier today, launched Kakao Page, a new monetized content platform optimized for
mobile...
The search engine
giant introduced Google Allo and Duo recently, two apps that are strictly meant for the
mobile niche with roles in
messaging and video calling services, respectively.
The search engine
giant expounded that Google Allo would be an AI - supported
mobile messaging platform while Duo would focus on video calling.