#TIASG2016

What does the world's highest earning app publisher (across BOTH Android and iOS) do for an encore? Other than its main messaging function, the company smoothly introduced auxiliary services such as games, news, taxi hailing, and payments to build a diversified kingdom fuelled by its popularity as a messaging app. CEO Takeshi Idezawa is here to explain how he steers the Japanese messaging platform and his subsequent plans for conquering markets outside of Asia.

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