LINE's downloads increased by two millions in twenty days, and ten million downloads within the year is already in its achievable range.
TOKYO, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- NAVER Japan Corporation ("NAVER Japan", headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Morikawa Akira -- the CEO) is pleased to announce that the total number of downloads for 'LINE' (http://line.naver.jp), for both iPhone and Android, exceeded seven million as of November 27, 2011, five months after the launch.
LINE is a Smartphone application in which its users can make voice calls or send/receive messages with each other no matter whether they are inside or outside their country or what carrier they use. Since LINE was launched on June, 2011, it has been used in not only in Japan but also in 108 countries worldwide, especially in Middle East and Southeast Asia, and achieved a total number of five million downloads as of November 8, 2001, four and a half month after the launch.
Since then, the number of LINE users has been steadily increasing, especially in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; and as its result, LINE has marked a total number (in both domestic and overseas) of two million downloads in twenty days and seven million downloads recently.
"NAVER Japan will further improve the user-friendliness of its service and bring ten million downloads within the year into our view as the world-leading, global mobile messenger used in 108 countries worldwide."
About NAVER Japan Corporation
NAVER Japan Corporation is a local subsidiary of NHN Corporation in Japan which manages the world's fifth search portal, 'NAVER.com.' In Japan, the search service 'NAVER' was launched as of July 1, 2009, with the concept of 'search for each other.' NAVER Japan has been developing a variety of services such as the curation platform called 'NAVER MATOME' and the free voice call/messenger application 'LINE.' It has been receiving about three hundred million accesses per month, and sixteen million of unique users have been visiting its services every month (surveyed at the end of September, 2011), as it keeps growing as a social search service.
Media Contact:
Satoshi Yajima / Tomomi Kaneko
Naver Japan
Email: press@naver.jp
