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As per an announcement made today, SoftBank-owned Yahoo! Japan - now known as Z Holdings Corporation - will soon be merged with LINE Corp., a subsidiary of NAVER, to form a new joint company.

The LINE Corporation, the firm behind LINE messenger, has announced LINK, a new cryptocurrency that users will receive for using services in the LINE ecosystem. They can be sold for other currencies.

31 products won Best of Innovation Awards for CES 2018. Four of the products included: a robot for your home, a HUD for motorcyclists, language translating earbuds, and a wireless charging system.

A new study conducted by an Italian operator has revealed which popular messaging app consumes the least amount of data when tested under light, medium, and heavy usage. The results vary wildly.

Revenue across both the App Store and Play Store have increased from approximately $5.2 billion to around $8.7 billion. Spotify, Netflix, Tinder, and LINE contributed the most to the figure.

The popular LINE messenger has received an update which removes support for Hidden Chats but switches end-to-end encryption on across all chats. Users should update the app to gain the features.

Voice, video and instant messaging service LINE has brought its Universal app over to Windows 10 Mobile along with various improvements, following its release on Windows 10 PCs a short while ago.

We've known for a few weeks now that MixRadio is being shut down by its current owner, LINE. The MixRadio team is now offering one last mix before they shut down their servers forever.

Today, LINE has announced the shuttering of MixRadio streaming service. The service originated from Nokia and was later sold. The service will be discontinued in the coming weeks.

Exclusively available to Windows Phone until now, the free, personalized music service MixRadio has now launched on Android and iOS, featuring a new UI that's also coming to Microsoft's mobile OS.

From late Microsoft arrivals and early Steam deals, to more Sony leaks, Lollipop on LG, Denim on Verizon, and a phone the size of your head, we look back at highlights from the week's top tech news.

Microsoft has agreed terms to sell MixRadio - the music streaming service it acquired with Nokia's devices and services business - to LINE, the company behind the global messaging app.

According to a new report, Google is planning to launch its own mobile messaging client after its failed bid to acquire WhatsApp and losing market share to other messaging applications of late.

According to CEO Terry Gou, Foxconn plans to deploy robots on their factory assembly lines, which produce devices like the iPhone, in order to cut costs and replace human workers.

During its Notebook event at Apple's Town Hall today, Apple refreshed its entire notebook line, utilizing glass and aluminum on their redesigned models. The new MacBook and MacBook Pro begin shipping today, and will utilize...

It is now clear that New Line (Owned by Warner Bros.) will also drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray. The announcement comes on a day that can only be described as a nightmare for...

Commercial pornography producer Vivid is taking the web site PornoTube and its parent company to court for copyright infringement. PornoTube is based on user submitted videos in the same way as YouTube, although the site...

Apple announced today a new range of iPods ready for the holiday season. Big on the list is the iPod touch which is near identical to the iPhone apart from that it's thinner and has...

Apple Inc shares rose more than 5 percent on Wednesday on growing expectations that the company will announce a revamped line of iPods next week. Technology news Web sites have speculated that Apple could launch...

Symantec Corp. today announced the launch of Norton Internet Security 2008 and Norton AntiVirus 2008, industry leading security solutions that have been enhanced to provide computer users with comprehensive protection against new and emerging online...

After Apple's iPhone, what about the Googlephone? The search engine company has been secretly developing prototype mobile phones and testing a host of new software and mobile services, with some estimates putting its investment in...

Xbox 360 Elite systems on a Chinese production line have been caught on camera. The images not only show the sleek, black exterior of the Xbox 360 Elite, but a close-up image shows the 120GB...

Yesterday we had the rare opportunity to talk with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates about the future of Windows, 64-bit computing, and more. As we have previously reported, Gartner Group and others have reported that they...

ATI Technologies has introduced several graphics cards, including three that it says offer top performance at a low cost and two more that make up a new family of high-end cards. Three new Radeon cards,...

The first beta version of Microsoft's new Command Line based shell was released to users via Microsoft's BetaPlace website on Friday. The release, codenamed "Monad", was originally thought to be a component of Longhorn....

Microsoft's hardware division, unlike some of its others, has rarely received criticism for the products they release. Always slick, always working well, Microsoft have always done their Hardware well. Today, Microsoft are updating the line...