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$81.7 billion in 2015, up 4 percent from a [...]
“According to Google, 80 percent of Koreans use smartphones, the second highest distribution rate following Singapore. Koreans spend an average of 13.4 hours per week on mobile apps, which is longer than the 9 hours they spend watching TV. They even spend twice as much time on mobile apps than Americans, who spend 6.3 hours [...]
SEOUL & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) ― LG Electronics (LG) and Google are making virtual reality (VR) more accessible to mainstream consumers. LG today announced a free VR for G3 giveaway for customers who purchase new LG G3 smartphones. LG’s VR for G3 works with Google Cardboard and enables G3 owners to [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Sunday it will be looking at global tech companies that may be abusing their monopolistic control to disrupt fair competition in the local market, a move some insiders say may extend to Google and Apple. “The plan is to check the information technology and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Government is set to launch a 1.4 billion won (US$ 1.3 million) project to delete Korean citizens’ exposed personal information, said the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) on January 14. The project’s goal is to find cases of illegally collected or mishandled personal information among domestic and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — By offering the ability for reviews and promotional daily deals, the Vopia.com search engine took another step forward yesterday in its bid to dominate as the go-to-place for local businesses. The Vopia.com functions launched this December 15th, are expected to draw considerable attention as it will be the [...]