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"\r\n\r\nLine, the chat app company with over 300 million registered users, has launched a call identification app -- Line Whoscall -- to help users vet and block unwanted calls. It is essentially a rebranded version of an app from Gogolook, the Taiwanese company Line acquired\u00A0last month.\r\n\r\nLine Whoscall is initially available for Android only, as it was under Gogolook. Line says an iOS version will be released in the future, but it does not have a date for that right now.\r\n\r\nThe app, which had been downloaded more than 6 million times, looks up numbers from a database of more than 600 million, drawing information from public sources like yellow pages and Internet searches. Users assign tags to numbers that are not in their contact list, and can share them with friends or block them as they wish.\r\n\r\nAs it happens,\u00A0Google is baking\u00A0a similar feature into Android -- caller ID for personal Google accounts will come to KitKat users in &amp;quot;early&amp;quot; 2014.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Identify and Block Calls and Messages from Unknown Callers with \u201CLINE whoscall\u201D (First on Android) [Line Blog] | Hat tip Tech In Asia\r\n\r\nThumbnail image via Shutterstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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