SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Sony Korea announced on December 1 that it would release its SmartWatch3 and SmartBand Talk devices in Korea in December. Equipped with an always-on 1.4-inch display that’s based on E-ink technology to prolong battery life, users can make phone calls with the SmartBand via a Bluetooth connection to their smartphone. [...]
“Beginning in December this year we will launch Line Pay in Japan. With this payment service, we will strengthen the shopping unit of Naver. Google considers Amazon as its biggest rival. It shows how much attention Internet companies pay to shopping services.” “The major money-making businesses on the Internet are advertising and shopping. In order [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Workers of Samsung affiliates to be sold to Hanwha Group are protesting the massive sell-off of their companies. A Samsung worker even left a post selling his Samsung badge on an online direct commerce site as an expression of his protest against the deal. On November 28, workers of Samsung Total [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Just three weeks after its rollout, more than 20,000 customers have already signed up for SK Telecom’s custom-tailored T Outdoor wearable device plan. The T Outdoor service is a rate plan for communications module-equipped wearable devices, and allows the user to take advantage of voice and data services without [...]
“The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on January 1 this year there will be additional job creation effects of 14,000 more jobs as well as foreign investment of more than 2.3 trillion won. For 11 months since the law’s revision, however, there has been almost no new foreign investment.” “The number of new [...]
Amsterdam, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announces that its Allynis Trusted Service Hub is enabling the commercial rollout of Valyou, Norway’s first mobile NFC payment service, by Telenor, DNB and SpareBank. Telenor is Norway’s leading mobile operator with three million subscribers in the country and some 180 million [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – After the 2-trillion won (US$1.8 billion) deal that sent its chemical and defense subsidiaries (including Samsung Techwin) to Hanhwa Group, Samsung plans to repurchase its business jets, which are currently under Techwin’s management. Hanwha’s acquisition of Samsung Techwin made industry watchers curious about the disposal of the Samsung Group [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – At the Creative Korea 2014 exhibition being held at COEX from November 27 to 30, Samsung Electronics hosted a UHD Museum & Zoo. The UHD Museum is a collection of photos depicting Korean cultural assets, while the UHD Zoo shows ultra-high definition images of near-extinct animals filmed in Africa utilizing state-of-the-art [...]
“This is the time for a new financial support system to create an environment in which innovative firms and financial service providers can grow together. Currently the funding volume for small business operators is 496 trillion won, of which 5.2 percent [about 26 trillion won] is taken up by technology financing firms. I will make [...]
BANGKOK, THAILAND, Nov. 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in IT, celebrates 20 years of operations in Thailand, having played a key role in digitizing the economy and transforming Thailand. Cisco technologies, expertise and solutions have been embraced by business and organizations in, changing the way Thais’ work, live, play [...]