TOKYO -- Shares in Softbank's Yahoo Japan surged as investors cheered the prospect of its merger with messaging app Line, a $27 billion union that would create a giant payments, news portal and e-commerce platform with over 100 million users.
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A merger of Yahoo Japan and Line would create with greater revenue than Rakuten, the country's leading internet company. (Nikkei montage)
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