"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, ...

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.

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 ...

Concerns are mounting that Korean portal giant Naver may lose its management rights for Line, the immensely popular messaging app in Japan it has nurtured over the past 13 years, amid a rare ...

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - SoftBank CEO Junichi Miyakawa said on Thursday that the Japanese telecommunications firm is in talks with South Korea's Naver over control of LY Corp, which operates the ...

Naver, facing pressure from the Japanese government, will reduce its cybersecurity ties to the operator of popular messaging app Line. Line Yahoo (LY), which operates both Line and Yahoo Japan, ...

The operator of the Line messaging app plans to stop outsourcing business to South Korea’s Naver Corp. following a massive leak of personal information through cyberattacks. All contracts for ...