SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced Thursday it would spend 1 trillion won (US$840 million) by 2020 to boost the artificial intelligence industry. It also plans to support the civilian-led establishment of a high-profile research center tasked with serving as a “pivot” of the nation’s research and development in the field. [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a movie premise but actually realizable technology, it has been pointed out that Korean companies need to buckle down as they are lagging behind global IT giants. According to a report issued by the Institute for Information and Communications [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean activist group said Friday U.S.-based social network operator Facebook Inc.’s compliance with investigation warrants pose a threat to local users’ privacy, demanding that the firm follow Apple Inc.’s privacy policy. Police arrested a 26-year-old student, known only by his last name Kim, earlier this week on [...]
SEOUL, Jan.29 (Korea Bizwire) – Two leading tech giants, Apple and Facebook, seem to be in different leagues given their recent performance. With demand for smartphones on the wane, industry watchers even predicted a quarter of negative growth for Apple. On the other hand, Facebook is performing far better than market expectations. On January 27, [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it joined the Open Compute Project (OCP), a community-led initiative for open source hardware and data center design. SK Telecom is committed to play a pivotal role in the newly created OCP Telco Project by making collaborative efforts with other global leading [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea this year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing other global and local platforms. According to a survey by market researcher DMC Media on 780 SNS users aged between 19 and 59, 59.8 percent picked Facebook as their most-used [...]
SEOUL, Nov.26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom and Facebook Korea have been selected by their employees as the best workplaces in Korea. On November 25, Job Planet and Fortune Korea held a ceremony to present awards to the companies selected as the best places to work. The companies were selected through anonymous interviews of current [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook, Twitter and Google will now have to examine illegal content that has been flagged by the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC). The three American services, which are also widely used among Koreans, only delete content when a report is submitted from a user. However, from now on, content [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top smartphone maker, managed to stay on the top 10 list of global tech players this month in terms of market capitalization but suffered a one notch decline from end-2014 apparently due to a plunge in earnings. Samsung ranked No. 10 among other major tech [...]
INCHEON, Korea, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon Metropolitan City plans to launch a “dementia partner” program in a bid to change negative perception related to the chronic disease. On May 5, the city government announced that it would recruit “dementia partners.” Anyone who is interested in the disease can join the program, and the [...]