Yahoo and LINE The idea of ​​competing against a giant IT company Original device important November 19 0:02

SOFTBANK Group IT giant Yahoo and communications app giant LINE, which decided to integrate by October next year, announced their intention to compete with large IT companies in the US at a press conference. However, the difference in scale with large companies is large, and it seems that it is not easy to increase the presence in the world.

Yahoo's holding companies, Z Holdings and LINE, have reached a basic agreement on business integration by October next year.

LINE will join the SoftBank group through integration, and a huge group will be born in Japan that handles search, SNS, smartphone payments, and so on.

At the press conference, the two companies mentioned that they would compete with large IT companies in the United States and China as a major aim of integration. Was raised.

In addition to focusing on the domestic market, LINE announced that it would grow into a world-leading AI company based on its customer base in Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia.

However, compared to American IT companies such as Amazon and Google, and Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Tencent, even if the two companies are integrated, there is an actual difference in profits and R & D costs.

For this reason, it is not easy to show a presence in the world as the purpose of integration, but it will increase the sense of speed, and unique ingenuity such as the development of other services will be important.

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Yahoo and LINE, which are affiliated with Z Holdings, offer a wide range of services such as online shopping and smartphone payments.

If integrated, for example, there is a possibility that users will be able to remit money without fees between PayPay and LINEEPay, which are now competitive in the smartphone payment field.

It is also expected that 82 million LINE users will use other Yahoo services.

At the press conference on the 18th, the two companies will continue to continue for the time being with regard to overlapping businesses such as smartphone payments and news distribution, and after completing the management integration procedure scheduled for October next year, I showed the idea that I wanted to consider.