SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Industry watchers are suggesting that Samsung Electronics might find itself stuck between the US and China in the home Internet of Things (IoT) business. A report issued by the KT economic research laboratory predicted that Apple and Google will dominate the platform, and Chinese companies will be a conspicuous entity in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant LG Electronics is set to join forces with U.S. Google for a smartphone with an Android-based payment system, industry sources said Thursday, commencing its struggle to catch up to rivals. LG Electronics is anticipated to showcase Google’s next Nexus smartphone in October, according to the sources. [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A conference gauging the progress of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies, which are receiving attention as the multimedia services of the future, was held on July 22. SK Telecom hosted a forum to discuss the present and future of immersive multimedia services such as augmented reality and virtual reality. [...]
Seoul, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Information Technology (IT) companies are getting busy before the second half of this year, when the issue of mobile payment systems is expected to come to a head. Samsung Electronics, Google and Naver, three industry powerhouses, are set to launch mobile payment systems that are expected to have widespread influence on [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics ranks as the most reputable technology company in the United States, a report showed Sunday, on the back of its strong products and services appealing to American consumers. Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, has topped such tech peers as Microsoft, Google and Intel in terms [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has been picked as a “Mobile First” nation, with a significant number of smartphone users taking advantage of their mobile devices for Internet searches, online purchases and watching videos. According to Google’s “Consumer Barometer” analyzing internet usage patterns across the globe, 60 percent of Korean Internet users preferred [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s top automaker, said Wednesday it will release the world’s first car that links to U.S. Google’s Android Auto app, adding the service will officially kick off in the United States later this month. The platform will be first applied to the 2015 Sonata sedan and will [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. opened its first Asian campus for start-ups and entrepreneurs in South Korea on Friday as part of efforts to provide more business opportunities for them. With the size of 2,000 square meters, the Campus Seoul in the posh Gangnam district in the southern part [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung, which holds one of the leading smartphone makers Samsung Electronics under its wing, was declared as the second-most valuable brand in the globe, data showed Thursday. The price tag on the Samsung brand was estimated at US$81.7 billion in 2015, up 4 percent from a [...]