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LINE is a freeware app for instant communications on electronic devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, and personal computers. LINE users exchange texts, images, video and audio, and conduct free VoIP conversations and video conferences. In addition, LINE is a platform providing various services including digital wallet as LINE Pay, news stream as LINE Today, video on demand as LINE TV, and digital comic distribution as LINE Manga and LINE Webtoon. The service is operated by LINE Corporation, a Tokyo-based subsidiary of Softbank Group and the Seoul-based Naver Corporation. LINE began as a disaster response. In March 2011, the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan's telecommunications infrastructure nationwide, obliging employees at NHN Japan to rely on Internet-based resources to communicate. The company's engineers developed LINE to facilitate this, and the company released their app for public use in June 2011. LINE reached 100 million users within eighteen months and 200 million users only six months later. LINE became Japan's largest social network in 2013. In October 2014, LINE announced that it had attracted 560 million users worldwide with 170 million active user accounts. In February 2015, it announced the 600 million users mark had been passed and 700 million were expected by the end of the year. In March 2021, SoftBank Group affiliate Z Holdings completed a merger with Line Corporation. Under the new structure, A Holdings, a subsidiary of SoftBank Corporation, will own 65.3% of Z Holdings. In effect, Z Holdings will become a consolidated subsidiary of SoftBank Corporation and own LINE and Yahoo!Japan. LINE is the most popular messaging application in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.