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LINE Wins “Best International Startup” at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Ceremony

Feb 13, 2015   19:10 IST 
New Delhi, Delhi, India

LINE, the world’s leading mobile platform with 181 million monthly active users, today announced that it was recipient of “The 2015 Crunchies Award for Best International Startup” at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Ceremony organized by Tech Crunch and VentureBeat.

The Annual Crunchies Awards is an annual ceremony to congratulate the startups that achieved the most buzz that year, as well as praise the latest IT innovations. The 8th hosting of the event brought together the hottest startups at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on February 5, 2015, where LINE attended the ceremony to receive the award.

 

As a startup active on the global stage, LINE was nominated for Best International Startup from among 20 categories, beating out other nominated favorites like Kik, Spotify, Citymapper, EyeEm and more for the title of “The 2015 Crunchies Award for Best International Startup.”

 

Damandeep Singh Soni, Spokesperson of LINE India, said “We are extremely proud to receive such an illustrious award, and would like to express our deepest gratitude to all users and everyone else supporting LINE who voted for us. I look forward to sharing the joy of this award with all our employees, users, and fans. We hope to take this success and use it to provide an even more revolutionary and superior service in the future, and look forward to your continued support.”

                                                                                                                                            

Those who wish to view the moment LINE received The 2015 Crunchies Award for Best International Startup can do so by following the link below:

http://techcrunch.com/video/line-2015-best-international-startup-winner/518637763/

 

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LINE Facebook Page:

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http://en.lineblog.naver.jp/

LINE Official YouTube:

www.youtube.com/lineappglobal

 

About LINE:

LINE, the world's leading mobile platform, offers free text and voice messaging, voice calling and group chat with up to 200 people, integrated with various interactive elements such as Stickers, Timeline and Official Accounts. Since its release in June 2011, the cross-platform mobile messenger has been releasing a series of add-on apps that range from games to an anti-virus app. Today, LINE has become a hot cultural icon with 181 million monthly active users in 230 countries. LINE has also held the coveted No. 1 spot in the 'free apps' category of app stores in 70 regions.

For more information visit: http://line.naver.jp/en/.

About LINE PLUS Corporation:

LINE PLUS Corporation, the world's leading mobile platform innovator, is a joint-venture entity between Naver Corporation (former NHN Corporation) and LINE Corporation (former NHN Japan Corporation), newly organized in March 2013. As a global smartphone life platform provider, LINE PLUS services LINE and its family applications to bring together an innovative mobile messaging tool and new communication lifestyle. LINE PLUS Corporation was created to promptly react to the ever-changing mobile messenger market and to strengthen its global business based on the industry expertise of its parent company, which furnishes a wide range of innovative and convenient online services. LINE PLUS Corporation is located in Seoul, Korea.

For more information, please visit http://linepluscorp.com/ (For English, http://linecorp.com/en/)

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