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LY Corporation (LINEヤフー株式会社, Rain Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha, lit. ' Line Yahoo Corporation '), trading as LYC, is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Corporation and Yahoo!
- October 1, 2023; 12 days ago
- Rain Yahū Kabushiki gaisha
- LINEヤフー株式会社
- Public
Feb 2, 2023 · TOKYO -- Japan's Z Holdings announced that it will merge with its two wholly owned subsidiaries -- internet portal Yahoo Japan and messenger app LINE -- in an effort to revamp operations and speed ...
Mar 30, 2021 · Z Holdings Corporation, the owner of Yahoo Japan Corporation, successfully merged with LINE Corporation on March 1, 2021. At a press conference and briefing for investors to mark the integration, the two Co-CEOs, Kentaro Kawabe and Takeshi Idezawa, who also serves as CEO of LINE, pledged to use the power of the Internet to solve users’ problems and make daily life more convenient.
Nov 14, 2019 · SoftBank Group, which owns 45% of Yahoo Japan parent Z Holdings, and South Korea's Naver, which owns 73% of Line, are in the final stage of negotiations, sources said. They aim to reach a basic ...
Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社, Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank (current SoftBank Group) and American Yahoo! Inc. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [2]
Nov 18, 2019 · Telecoms firm SoftBank Corp said Yahoo Japan, which last month changed its name to Z Holdings Corp, would aim to complete its merger with Line, owned by South Korea's Naver Corp, in October 2020.
Yahoo Japan is the country's biggest search engine, and has e-commerce and online banking subsidiaries. Line is the country's dominant messaging app, and is also popular in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
