The management of the Line messenger has completed a study of the Russian market. And today we see the first fruits of this preparatory work. Stickers in Russian began to be sold on the platform. 

Japanese messenger LINE has added another 100 million users in just 4 months. Now the company intends to raise 500 million by the end of 2014.

The Canadian-Chinese startup Pixelmatic has emerged from the shadows, whose founders believe that the world is about to see the birth of new social games.

LINE Corporation shared preliminary financial indicators for the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year.

One of the world’s largest messengers has announced plans to enter the stock market relatively soon. 

Former Zynga employee Todd Arnold has become the head of the growing games division of Tango, a mobile messaging service.

The domestic company Alawar recently announced the imminent release of its Shake Spears game! as part of the Japanese social platform LINE.

NHN reports: the number of registered LINE users has exceeded 230 million. In Spain alone, the messenger has 15 million users. 

Our portal in an exclusive interview discussed the situation on the Japanese mobile games market with Jun Sasaki, creative director of Dango Inc.

Japanese company Gree is shutting down Tellit, a mobile messaging service that was launched last year. According to the company, the reason for this is the need for constant rationalization of costs in a highly competitive environment.

The Japanese gaming bestseller of the company GungHo, which has 15 million users and earns more than $ 100 million a month, lost the palm in the box office top of Japan to the messenger LINE.