SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoTalk, a multi-platform mobile messenger application company in South Korea, announced on September 23 that more than 500,000 users have joined its new mobile payment service KakaoPay only in 19 days right after the launch on September 5. Indicating an upward surge in the newly launched mobile payment solution, [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Competition between e-commerce payment service providers is dramatically increasing as KakaoTalk, a multi-platform texting application provider, launched its new mobile payment service KakaoPay. According to the leading app company on September 21, more than 130,000 users have joined the service only in about 20 days right after the launch. [...]
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Detailresult Group, a leading retail conglomerate in the Netherlands, has outsourced its B2B messaging and archiving operations to Descartes to increase productivity and reduce costs. Detailresult relies on an ecosystem of over one [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Aladin, an online bookstore in Korea, launched a new type of e-commerce payment service for its website on September 17. Even though the book seller on the Internet has already attempted to introduce the new system in 2009 and again in 2013, it failed to do so since domestic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Among Korean preparatory entrepreneurs who plan to build a start-up overseas, eBay was selected as the most favorable online distribution channel. According to Teranova Korea, overseas start-up consultant agency which conducted a survey interviewing 910 preparatory entrepreneurs, 37 percent of the respondents picked eBay as the preferable channel for overseas [...]
COLOGNE, GERMANY, Sep 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The official dmexco App is being launched just in time to coincide with dmexco 2014. With its optimized App version, dmexco is once again offering a complete range of mobile support features that will make a visit to the biggest top-class show in the global digital marketing industry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment took the first step to enter the e-commerce market in Korea. The game company announced on September 4 that it would purchase 5.1 million shares of Korea Cyber Payment at the cost of 64.19 billion won, or about US$62.7 million. After its paid-in capital increase, the Korean game publisher [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to the fast-rising Chinese tourists in Korea, the credit card spending by foreigners in the second quarter has hit a record-high level. According to the Bank of Korea on August 29, the total amount of credit card spending made by foreign visitors to Korea was US$2.91 billion during the April-June period, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – It was reported that e-commerce transactions is possible only by typing in one’s username and password as early as late September or as late as early October, as currently available with two e-commerce platform providers: PayPal, an international e-commerce business allowing Internet payments and money transfers, and Alipay, a [...]
COLOGNE GERMANY, Aug. 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2014 dmexco will once again break all records, featuring over 800 exhibitors on more than 60.000 square meters in three fully occupied halls. The number of trade visitors from all over the world is also expected to reach an all-time high of over 30,000. In response [...]