Message Service Line Entering Carrier Business in Japan

Line Corp., which offers a popular mobile message and online voice-call service, is entering the mobile carrier business in Japan, and hopes to keep growing as a platform for news, music, live streaming and online shopping. Line, founded five years ago, already has a billion global registered users, 215 million of them active each month on average. That makes it bigger on mobile than Facebook or Twitter in Japan. Line executives outlined the company's future strategy Thursday at a...

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