Ahead of Snap’s eagerly awaited IPO, Line, one of the U.S. tech IPO highlights of 2016, has doubled down on sister service and Snapchat clone Snow. Line went public in a dual U.S.-Japan IPO that ...

Line is not just a messaging app. At the same time as it confirmed that it is applying for a long-rumored IPO, that could value it at $10 billion, an app called Line Shop has surfaced in Thailand ...

Line—the messaging app that is dominant in its home market of Japan and also a hit in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand—is making a home for itself in New York. It launched a Times Square flagship store ...

Update: Today, the same feature was added to the Line for iOS app. While typing, you should now see a series of auto-suggested stickers and emoji just above the on-screen keyboard. Hoorah! Original: ...

Line Corporation, maker of the popular messaging app Line, arrived on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Thursday morning in what turned out to be the biggest market debut of a tech company this year.

A Japanese messaging app operator is set to launch the biggest tech IPO of the year. Line Corp., which operates messaging app Line, will list its shares in New York on Thursday and then in Tokyo on ...

After raising more than $1 billion in an IPO earlier this week, shares in the Japanese message app Line soared to 36 percent by midday trading on Thursday, in the company's market debut. Investor ...

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