The SoftBank Corp. subsidiary operating Yahoo Japan online services and messaging app provider Line Corp. said Monday they will merge operations by October next year to create the largest online company in Japan in a bid to compete with U.S. and Chinese tech giants."We will become the strongest 'one team'" in the internet industry, Kentaro Kawabe, president of Z Holdings Corp., a group company of SoftBank Group Corp., said at a press conference.Line President Takeshi Idezawa said the new entity will "lead the world from Japan as an artificial intelligence tech company."By making full use of…READ FULL ARTICLE
