SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has updated its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital assistant Bixby, enabling users of its new flagship Galaxy S23 smartphones to talk on the phone by typing messages in situations where it’s difficult for them to answer the phone. Samsung announced on Thursday that it had added the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Yanolja Co., a leading South Korean travel platform operator, said Thursday it has been tapped as the first Korean startup to join the United Arab Emirates’ startup incubator as a member. Yanolja joined the Global Unicorn Center in Dubai as a member during the World Government Summit event held [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp. halted its recruitment of experienced workers with South Korea’s IT industry engulfed in a hiring freeze due to the current economic slump. According to industry sources, the tech giant notified all of the individuals who were preparing for the recruitment process for experienced developers that their applications [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giants have joined hands to expand the simple payment ecosystem with the impending launch of Apple Inc.’s mobile payment service Apple Pay in the domestic market, Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest mobile phone maker, and Naver Financial Corp., a financial arm of leading portal operator [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of monthly users of the U.S. social media network Facebook, once the most popular social media service for Korean users, has been on a downward trend for several years. Facebook’s domestic monthly active users (MAU), based on data from both Android and iOS devices, stood at 10,056,845 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is actively using a Chinese mobile game to highlight the performance of its latest Galaxy S23 series. The South Korean tech giant recently installed “Genshin Impact,” an online role-playing game from Chinese video gaming company miHoYo, on the Galaxy S23 devices it displayed at its domestic [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphone release, the Galaxy S23, is gaining sensational popularity, while interest in foldable phones seems to be fading. Consumers are placing more value on the high performance of the new product than the utility obtained through foldable phones. Despite the advantage of having a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday its new flagship Galaxy S23 smartphones set a new preorder record on its home turf. Preorders for the Galaxy S23 series, launched in early February, amounted to 1.09 million units, with the luxury Ultra model being the most popular. The world’s largest mobile phone [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday it has decided to slap fines of 25.7 billion won (US$20 million) on Kakao Mobility Corp., the nation’s leading taxi-hailing service, for manipulating its algorithm to give more calls to cabs under its franchise. The punishment on the operator of the app, Kakao [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it aims to broaden the use of eco-conscious materials to all its smartphone products in the coming years. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it plans to use recycled plastic materials in all its new flagship Galaxy smartphones and stop using plastics in packaging [...]