Regardless of the ongoing diplomatic brouhaha, many industry watchers expect Naver to divest its stake in the 50:50 joint venture with SoftBank that controls the Line messenger app and Yahoo Japan.

Softbank Corp. has dropped any immediate plans to increase its stake in the Line messaging app operator, which would have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The logo of free messaging app Line is pictured on a smartphone and the company's stuffed toy in this photo illustration taken in ...

"Ito Hirobumi: Invasion of Korean territory, Ito Hirobumi's grandson: Invasion of the cyber territory line of the Republic of Korea" President Lee Jae-myung noted in a social media post last May, ...

The operator of the Line messaging app plans to stop outsourcing business to South Korea’s Naver Corp. following a massive ...

Korea will put Naver’s interest in the forefront in coming up with countermeasures to cope with the Korean IT firm’s conundrum of the Japanese government’s pressure on Naver to give up its ownership ...