SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. said Friday it will cut the cost of battery replacement for iPhone models, amid criticism that the company intentionally slowed down older smartphones. “Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by US$50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone [...]
SAN JOSE, CA, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announces the availability of Cisco® Security Connector, the first security app designed to give enterprises the deepest visibility and control over network activity on iOS devices, now in the App Store. Apple has designed iOS to be secure from the ground up and to [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is introducing a new policy this month requiring multinational companies to submit integrated attribution reports, as part of a bid to tackle tax avoidance. The integrated reports submission system is in response to tax avoidance schemes employed by multinational companies such as the manipulation of transfer prices, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – What a difference a few weeks make. Earlier in the month, the iPhone 8′s launch event via mobile carrier KT brought out a grand total of one person who waited overnight for the release. With consumer sentiment towards the eighth iteration of the smartphone lukewarm for a number of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The corporate tax rate by South Korea’s top 10 conglomerates surpassed that of the United States for the first time last year, a report by a local think tank showed Wednesday. According to the findings by the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI), the business tax rate of the top [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s corporate watchdog is probing U.S. tech giant Apple Inc.’s practice of shifting the cost of advertisements to local mobile carriers, industry sources said Tuesday. South Korea’s three mobile carriers started television advertisements for the iPhone 8 earlier this month. According to the sources, local mobile carriers currently [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple is facing criticism in Korea after the smartphone giant unveiled the price of the iPhone X, which is over 200,000 won more expensive than in the U.S. and Japan. The new iPhone X, which is set to be released on November 24 in the South Korean market, will cost [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. said Wednesday it will begin sales of the iPhone X smartphone in South Korea on Nov. 24 — earlier than expected — apparently due to the sluggish performance of the iPhone 8 here. The release came as a surprise, as industry watchers expected the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. said Wednesday the iPhone X will be released in South Korea with a price tag of 1.42 million won (US$1,207), hovering far above that of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 8 released in September. Apple’s South Korean office said the 64GB iPhone X will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The eyes of the smartphone industry are trained on India with Samsung, Apple and Xiaomi all releasing their latest flagship products within weeks of each other. Though the Indian smartphone market has been predominantly composed of mid to lower-tier smartphones in the past, recent economic development has led to [...]