– After achieving the milestone of 30 million users in just 10 months last April, LINE's explosive growth has continued, with user numbers increasing by more than five million each month. Total user numbers have now exceeded 40 million since LINE's launch on 23 June 2011, less than a year ago
– A new shortcut that allows users to move between LINE Card and LINE Camera by using the [+] button in the chat rooms, and new notification options for each chat room are now available with LINE version 2.4.0, launched on 5 June 2012
– LINE has also recently added a "Group Board" function, enabling users to share images, video clips and more when using group chat rooms
Achievement of LINE & LINE Camera!
– After opening its online Sticker Shop on April 26th, LINE became the top-grossing app on Taiwan's and Thailand's App Stores as well as the most popular app in a number of other Asian countries, a sign of its growing global popularity
– LINE Camera has been downloaded 6.5 million times. In the App Store, LINE Camera was ranked No. 1 among free apps in 13 markets simultaneously, including Taiwan. It also ranks top in the Photo & Video Apps category in 19 markets since LINE Camera was launched on 26 April 2012
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About LINE
LINE is a smartphone app which allows users to enjoy free calls and messages to one another, both nationally and internationally, regardless of which mobile network provide they are using. Launched in June 2011 by NHN, LINE has more than 28 million subscribers worldwide. It has also been ranked no. 1 in the free app category in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Macau, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Israel, Switzerland and Turkey. LINE carries various unique features such as 'Translations Bots', an instant and immediate translation services, 'Shake it', a fun way of exchanging ids and 'Emoji/Stickers/Emoticons'. For more information: http://line.naver.jp/en/.
About NHN Corporation and NHN Japan
NHN Corporation is Korea's premier Internet company, operating the nation's top search portal Naver (www.naver.com), the leading online game portal Hangame (www.hangame.com), the nation's largest children's portal Jr. Naver (jr.naver.com), Korea's the first online donation portal Happybean (happybean.naver.com) and microblog service Me2DAY (http://me2day.net/).Starting from the two business pillars of search and games, NHN has rolled out a wide range of innovative and convenient online services that enable people to enjoy their lives.
NHN Japan is a leading internet company, providing many services including: games; search/portals; media, and was merged with Naver Japan Corporation and livedoor Co., Ltd. in January 2012 (http://www.naver.jp). LINE is one of the services that NHN Japan produced, launched, and operates. While NHN Japan develops and enhances the service features of LINE, NHN Corp. provides all other offerings related to the business development of LINE, ranging from marketing and promotion to investment in technical support.
For more information visit: http://www.nhncorp.com/nhnen/index.nhn.
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