SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. said Thursday it has added South Korea to its online platform for museums and galleries in a move that could increase public access to 30,000 South Korean cultural assets. Google Arts & Culture’s “Korean Heritage Project” includes 2,500 artifacts from ancient Korean kingdoms and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Six South Korean startups from Campus Seoul, the first Asian campus set up by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., have attracted investment worth 2.8 billion won (US$2.5 million) during the first half of this year, the company said Wednesday. The campus, which opened in May 2015 in the posh [...]
VIENNA, Austria, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Paysafe, a leading global payments provider, announces a new partnership with Google. Paysafe’s prepaid business paysafecard is now being accepted as a payment method in the Google Play Store, the app store for Android-certified devices, opening the door to the digital era for millions of customers. From now [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube has emerged as the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea with nearly three in 10 SNS users relying on the platform, a poll showed Friday. According to the January survey of 200 South Koreans aged 20 or older, 27.6 percent of respondents picked YouTube as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. tech giant Google Inc. came under fire Monday Monday for describing a victim of Japan’s sexual slavery during World War II as a “prostitute” in its Korean-based search engine, which the firm claims was caused by an “error” in its algorithm. Earlier Monday, Google’s search engine described the late Moon Ok-ju, an activist and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The government’s investigation into allegations that Android phones secretly collected users’ location data is a rising subject of concern for many, who worry that existing laws have a severely limiting effect on any penalties the government may dole out. For the particular violation that Google is accused of, the [...]
SAN JOSE, CA, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Google Cloud today announced a partnership to deliver a hybrid cloud solution that helps customers maximize their investments across cloud and on-premises environments. The companies will provide a unique and open hybrid cloud offering that enables applications and services to be deployed, managed and secured [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Google Inc. is applying its artificial intelligence (AI) technology to not only prevent spam emails but also as an email reply tool for users, a company engineer said Wednesday. Google said its machine learning model can ferret out spam and phishing messages with 99.9 percent accuracy, even spam that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Messaging giant Kakao and search engines Google and Naver are the three largest mobile app makers in South Korea, a new industry report has revealed. Among Android smartphone users in the country, Kakao was branded the most popular mobile app maker both in the number of users and the average [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Google Inc. is teaching an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to generate music and art as part of its efforts to expand the limits of computer creativity to the level of human beings going forward, the company’s senior engineer said Thursday. The ambitious yet experimental “Magenta” project is one of [...]