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The cutesy stickers that messaging app Line is famous for are not just popular — they help to rake in the money. After all, Line makes over $10 million a month just from selling stickers. Line further ...

LINE Corp, the company behind Japan’s most popular messaging app, considers itself the “godfather of stickers” – and perhaps rightly so. It has revealed that in the first year since stickers started ...

Japan-based mobile messaging company Line raised eyebrows in May when it revealed that it made $17 million from selling stickers during the first quarter of 2013. Last year stickers were all but ...