You may have heard of stickers, the cutesy, cartoonish version of emojis, but did you know that they can also be a money-spinner? Japanese mobile messaging app Line ...

Stickers are more than just glorified emoticons, they’re big business don’t you know? While games account for the lion’s share of chat app Line’s revenues, it’s banking $10 million per month from ...

Twitter account tweeted a collaborative tieup with messenger app LINE for smartphones. LINE is a free chat application, like WhatsApp or Kakao, and it’s particularly popular in Japan. This boils down ...

Update: Today, the same feature was added to the Line for iOS app. While typing, you should now see a series of auto-suggested stickers and emoji just above the on-screen keyboard. Hoorah! Original: ...

The app, created in 2011 as an alternative communication service for use during natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, has greatly evolved to become an app ecosystem that raises most of ...

If stickers and emoticons still aren’t enough for you to express your emotions via chat apps, Japanese messaging service Line has now introduced ‘Sticons’ — a hybrid of stickers and emoticons (the ...

TOKYO — A year ago, Ms Siobhan Stollznow would have scoffed at the idea of using cartoon characters instead of words to chat with friends on her smartphone — until she got hooked on messaging app Line ...

Below is an edited version of the post “The Sticker Wars: WeChat’s creatives go up against Line” by Jason Li, originally published on the blog 88 Bar. Words don't always cut it on mobile messaging ...