LINE Surpasses 15M Downloads / TechCrunch Japan

According to announcement from NHN Japan, LINE achieved 15 million downloads. It  took seven months since its launch. It has 5.5 million users in Japan.

It is surprising that the app has around 1 million downloads a week this year. Outside of Japan, it was announced before that it has popularity in Middle East, but the app is also getting popular in Europe such as ranked for top in general ranking at AppStore in Switzerland and also highly ranked in Germany and Austria. ...

TechCrunch Japan 1/27/2011 [jp]

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• LINE is a free group chat and VoIP application for iPhone and Android.
• http://line.naver.jp/ja/