SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Onstyle, a home shopping unit of South Korean food and entertainment giant CJ Group, announced that it had recently formed a partnership with Google Inc. to start supplying live commerce content on YouTube. The move is a part of the company’s efforts to expand its viewer base towards [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Publishers Association (KPA) said Tuesday it has filed a suit against Google over forcing content providers to use its in-app payment system on Android apps, marking the first such suit filed in South Korea. The association claimed the U.S. tech giant abused its monopoly power to force [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday showcased its latest updates to software and services at an annual tech conference, which it said were aimed at improving overall user experience through technology innovations. At the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2022 in San Francisco, the South Korean tech giant unveiled the upgraded, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc.’s Pixel 1 smartphone, released back in 2016, is regaining market attention thanks to its free unlimited Google Photos storage function. It’s now easy to find a used Pixel 1 online at secondhand marketplace platforms like Joonggonara or Danggeun Market. Most of the phones put up for sale [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Wednesday slapped a combined fine of 100 billion won (US$71.9 million) on Google and Meta Platforms for collecting personal information without users’ consent and using it for personalized online advertising and other purposes, officials said. In a general meeting, the commission approved [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. announced Tuesday that it had launched a project in collaboration with BTS to view various cities and buildings visited by members of the K-pop supergroup. Google Arts & Culture, the tech giant’s online exhibition site, hosted the BTS x Street Galleries to commemorate July 9th, the ‘birthday’ [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s most popular messaging app KakaoTalk, has decided to remove an external payment link from the Android version of the software, following a standoff with Google over the U.S. tech giant’s new in-app payment policy, sources said Wednesday. The standoff between the two companies [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest software update for KakaoTalk, South Korea’s most popular mobile messaging app, remained suspended for a week on the Google Play store Thursday, following the refusal by tech giant Kakao Corp. to comply with Google’s new in-app payment policy. Google turned down Kakao’s submission application for the latest [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, has kept in place an external payment link in the Android version of the popular messaging software against Google’s new in-app payment policy. In April, Google required all app developers selling digital goods and services on the company’s Play [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies have raised charges for paid content services on Google as the U.S. tech giant prepares to remove apps with external payment links circumventing Google’s in-app payment system. Currently, many app developers on Google’s Play store directed users to external links for payment to circumvent Google’s billing [...]