Major tech firms have been keen to sell speakers equipped with voice-based artificial intelligence agents recently. The debuts of smart speakers are seen as the prelude to an AI era, ushering in a new technological age in which virtual assistants are expected to become as ...
Messenger app operator Line Corp. revealed Monday that it has provided private information about its users to authorities both in and outside Japan as part of criminal investigations. In a document titled Line Transparency Report, covering July to December last year, the company said the ...
The Japan Times newsroom selected these tech and digital stories as the most important of 2016. 1. All systems go: For a few weeks in the summer, it seemed to be all that anyone was talking about was "Pokemon Go," an augmented-reality game you play ...
Anyone looking for an application to record, edit and share video clips since Vine announced its imminent closure might be interested in checking out Line Moments, a video-sharing app that was released by the communications entity in October. Line Moments allows users to shoot 10-second ...
Internet giant Line Corp. on Monday made its foray into mobile phone services, launching low-cost smartphone and SIM card packages that offer subscribers free use of its messaging app. Branded Line Mobile, the service, excluding the cost of handsets, will cost between ¥500 and ¥3,220 ...
It was the social media chatter that gave him away, although changing his profile picture on the Line messaging app to a banner pledging "Indonesian support and solidarity for ISIS" probably didn't help. Had it not been for all that, Gigih Rahmat Dewa's plot to ...
Line Corp. posted a profit in its first earnings report since ushering in the year's biggest technology debut, as monthly active users rose to 220 million. Japan's largest mobile messaging service announced ¥2.56 billion ($24.3 million) of net income in the six months through June, ...
CEO Takeshi Idezawa says the company plans to build trust in its messaging and other services and expand.
Just as text messaging has become a mainstream form of communication, attention is shifting to the chatbot as the next big thing for information management and customer service. Chatbots are computer programs that interpret human speech or written inquiries and decide which information is being ...
Line Corp. set the price of its initial public offering at the top of the targeted range and will exercise an option to sell more stock as investors shrug off market volatility caused by Britain's decision to bolt from the European Union. The mobile-messaging service, ...
The messaging app's $1 billion IPO is a credit to its innovation but that's no guarantee of success beyond Japan.
Japan’s leading mobile messaging service finally pulls the trigger on its IPO after a two-year hiatus, the proceeds of which will go to spearhead its global expansion.
