SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Facing the limit of growth due to market saturation, the nation’s wireless carriers are seeking for new sources of revenue. SK Telecom, the leading wireless telecom operator in South Korea, is reportedly keen to step up its “appcessories” business. “Smart Beam,” a compact beam projector and its flagship brand [...]
HONOLULU, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Tetris®, the iconic and beloved video game that ushered in the casual game craze, is celebrating 30 years today. With hundreds of millions of products sold on more than 50 platforms across 185 countries, Tetris continues to evoke a passionate response from fans of all ages. In 2014, the Tetris [...]
MIAMI, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Isaac Daniel Group Management International, (IDGMI), a recognized leader in emerging technologies, has announced the signing of a South Florida modeling and talent agency — Avenue Productions — the first such agency in the world to use Reel Code® to promote its clients. The multimedia demands of the fashion and [...]
ORLANDO, Fla., June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – David and Joshua Wallack, the owners of Mango’s Tropical Café Orlando and Mango’s Tropical Café South Beach, on June 5th announced plans to develop the world’s tallest rollercoaster The Skyscraper™ and the lavish SKYPLEX™ indoor entertainment complex at International Drive and Sand Lake Road. The Skyscraper at SKYPLEX, the [...]
HERSHEY, Pa., June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Hershey Company (HSY) was recognized today for its continuing commitment to environmental stewardship by Newsweek in its 2014 Green Rankings. Out of the top U.S. 500 companies named, Hershey placed 46, moving up 210 spots from the last ranking, in 2012. “At Hershey, environmental stewardship is simply good [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Explosive new videos on alleged FIFA corruption from Andrew Jennings British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings has released exclusive stories on the eve of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The renowned author speaks candidly about his investigations into the alleged endemic corruption of the FIFA leadership and [...]
AMSTERDAM and DUSSELDORF, Germany, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BIC has started crowdsourcing digital handwriting contributions and data from all over the planet in order to combine them into a single typeface. The Universal Typeface experiment is a celebration of the BIC Cristal ballpoint, of which more than 100 billion have been produced since 1950. [...]
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument. Transmission of “Hello, World!” as a video message was the first 175-megabit communication for the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), a technology demonstration that allows NASA to [...]
SEOUL, June 07 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix has taken over the firmware unit of Softeq Development FLLC. It is the fifth time over the recent two years that SK Hynix has taken over companies or divisions related to NAND flash memory chips. On June 5, SK Hynix announced that the company has acquired the [...]
SEOUL, June 07 (Korea Bizwire) – Forty two percent of small businesses in the nation seem to reckon that their business conditions have been improved by the “SME-suitable industry scheme” initiated by the government. A survey was conducted to find out how the nation’s 51 specific industries — designated as “SME-suitable” which aims to keep [...]