SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. retained the top spot in the global smartphone market in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday. The world’s largest smartphone maker held a market share of 20 percent in the July-September period, followed by Apple with 14 percent and Xiaomi with 13 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kasa Korea Co., operator of a digital property investment platform, said Tuesday that it has attracted 19 billion won (US$16 million) from six investors to enhance security for trading and other necessary infrastructure. The investment, from investors including PGS Partners, WeMade, Arche Investment and Yuanta Investment, raised the total [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SoCar, a South Korean car-sharing company, said Thursday it aims to launch an integrated mobility services that connects all transit options in one app next year. The envisioned “super app” will allow users to find multiple modes of transit, such as car-sharing, buses, trains, and electric bikes, to reach [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The users of iPhone devices, including the iPhone 12 and 13, continued to experience dropped calls even after updating the mobile operating system released by Apple last month to fix the issue, industry sources said Wednesday. An official at LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of smartphone users on 5G mobile networks had topped 19 million as of October, data showed Wednesday, as new smartphone launches boosted user growth in the latest generation networks. The total number of 5G users reached 19.38 million in October, accounting for around 27 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Monday that about 300,000 sets have been sold and 220 billion emoticons have been sent among users through the messenger service since it launched its emoticon business ten years ago. KakaoTalk released its first emoticon in Nov. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Google said Friday that it will provide an alternative payment system at its app store in South Korea from next month in an apparent move to follow the country’s new law that bans app market operators from forcing the use of their own payment systems. “Developers can now accept [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple released an update to its mobile operating system Thursday to fix dropped calls on iPhone devices, including the iPhone 12 and 13. The release of the iOS 15.1.1, an updated version of the iOS 15.1, fixes the call drop performance issue on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — App store operators will face a fine of up to two percent for forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems, the country’s telecommunications regulator said Wednesday. Under the enforcement decree of the revised law aimed at curbing Google Inc. and other app store operators’ dominance, such app [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of a U.S. group that speaks for app developers has praised as “monumental” South Korea’s recent law prohibiting Google Inc. and Apple Inc. from forcing their in-app payment systems on app developers. The law went into effect in September, making South Korea the first country in the [...]