IT giant Yahoo and LINE merged on the 1st.


With a policy of strengthening the development of new services by investing intensively in the field of AI = artificial intelligence, the issue is whether it can compete with the leading Google and Amazon.

On the 1st, Yahoo and LINE merged to form a huge IT company that offers a wide range of services such as advertising, mail order, and finance in addition to search and SNS.



Kentaro Kawabe, president of Yahoo !, said at a press conference, "I would like to continue to provide new services in everyone's lives. Please look forward to it."



In addition to intensively investing 500 billion yen in the AI ​​field over the next five years, we will deepen cooperation with overseas companies invested by the SoftBank Group, which owns both companies, and strengthen online shopping and financial business utilizing smartphones. It is a policy to continue.



We are aiming to increase sales by about 1.5 times to 2 trillion yen in 2023, but the issue is whether we can compete with the leading Google and Amazon.