SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, which operates South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Wednesday it is “considering” taking over U.S.-based messenger service Path, although no details have been decided. “It is true that our working-level team has reviewed the plan (to take over Path),” an official from Daum Kakao said. “However, [...]
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“It is a pity that many messenger app users in Korea have migrated to foreign mobile messenger services. However, we will keep cooperating with prosecutors in case of legitimate investigations since KakaoTalk operates within the South Korean laws.” “I’m aware of what app users are worried about. But KakaoTalk has the top-tier security system. In [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Communications launched a new type of news service which makes news by utilizing crowdfunding on the Internet. The new scheme called news funding raises money from many people on the Internet to produce news items. On its website (http://m.newsfund.media.daum.net/), people contribute some money to good ideas that they want [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications announced on September 17 that it would launch a spam telephone number search service partnering with KTCS. KTCS, developer of a mobile app WhoWho, which provides users with information on spam phone calls, has already offered its huge database to the Korean portal site last month. The Android app [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications acquired smartphone app SeoulBus as a stepping stone to expand its business into local online to offline (O2O) market and reinforce its mobile advertisement business. Daum, the second largest Internet portal in Korea to be merged with Kakao Inc. next month, announced on September 16 that it took [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications announced on August 19 that it would launch a service to search ingredients in beauty products for the first time. Joining with a firm providing an app service, Hwa Hae, which has a huge database of 8,400 chemicals in cosmetic products, the Daum portal site created the browsing [...]