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Yahoo Japan and Line set to merge
Original source: www.bbc.com
Image copyright Tomohiro OhsumiJapan's biggest search engine and messaging app are set to merge under a deal agreed by their parent companies.
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.
Big in JapanWhile Google is the predominant search engine in the US and Europe, Yahoo is Japan's most popular search engine.
Line, which is owned by South Korean company Naver, has roughly 80 million users in Japan and a similar number in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.