SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – After cooperation for the smart shipyard, SK Telecom and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) decided to work together for the development of “smart ships.” On May 27, the two companies signed an agreement for the development of the smart ship. A smart ship is a next-generation vessel equipped [...]
TOKYO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, announced a strategic relationship with Socialspiel Entertainment GmbH (“Socialspiel”), a Vienna-based social and mobile game development studio. Led by industry veterans Mike Borras and Helmut Hutterer, Socialspiel is a highly-acclaimed European game development studio focused on high-quality, [...]
DALLAS and SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty materials company, today announced the opening of the new Celanese Commercial Technology Center in the high technology valley of Pangyo, Republic of Korea. The research and development center will support the growth of Celanese customers in South Korea, [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) ― LG introduces its newest premium Bluetooth stereo headset developed in collaboration with Harman/Kardon, one of the leading audio equipment manufacturers. With superb sound experience certified by Harman/Kardon, LG Tone InfinimTM (HBS-900) delivers great sound in a stylish design highlighted by sleek curves and glossy metallic finish. The Tone InfinimTM also [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s mom and pop grocery stores begin adopting “weather risk management” systems which employ demand-prediction marketing tools depending on weather variables, joining the growing trend of “going big data” among the mainly IT industries. As opposed to conglomerates and big convenient store chains, which have been following the trend and [...]
Seoul and Geneva, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced the signing of a comprehensive agreement on 28nm Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology for multi-source manufacturing collaboration. The licensing [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that SK Planet, a leading Korean Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, is expanding its overseas presence in the Turkish market on the IBM Cloud. SK Planet’s mobile messenger application TicToc, built on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, has witnessed [...]
Seoul, Korea, Apr. 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom announced that the company together with Sungshin Woman’s University held an opening ceremony of ‘Smart Class’ in Baku, the capital city of Republic of Azerbaijan. ‘Smart Class’ was set up at the building of ‘WLTY(World League of Turkish Youth)’, a vocational training institution for [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Commemorating World Malaria Day, which came on April 25th, “Ki-Heung Service Area,” an expressway rest area in the south of Seoul, took an initiative to prevent Malaria for locals and children in Uganda. “World Share,” an overseas relief agency, teamed up with the rest area to hold a “Mosquito Net [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – As anomalies in weather become more frequent, weather information has become a significant factor in business management in not only industries that are affected sensitively by the climate such as agriculture, fisheries and construction, but also in businesses such as logistics, food and tourism. In the meantime, [...]