Wattpad, the storytelling platform, is selling to South Korea's Naver for $600 million – TechCrunch
Wattpad, the storytelling platform, is selling to South Korea’s Naver for $600 million Wattpad, the 14-year-old, Toronto-based, venture-backed storytelling platform with reach into a number of verticals, is being acquired by Naver, the South Korean conglomerate, in a $600 million cash-and-stock deal. Naver plans to incorporate at least part of the business into another of its holdings, the publishing platform Webtoon, which Naver launched in 2004, brought to the U.S. in 2014, and that features thousands of comic strips created by its users. It also has a huge audience. According to Naver, W...
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