Line, the Facebook of Japan, plans to launch Siri like digital assistant

Line Corp. is the most popular app in Japan--and #TalkingTech pays a visit to find out why it's so popular. TOKYO -- Imagine a world where everyone you know is on the same social network, sending direct messages to one another, sharing photos and making free phone calls. And it's not called Facebook. In Japan, Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia, that social network/messenger app is probably Line, an app that's available in the United States and most other countries, but dominant in Asia, where over two-thirds of its audience is based. At 214 million monthly active users, Line is dwarfed in size by the Facebook social network and the Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp chat applications, which each have over 1 billion users.