SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean unit of Google Inc. has decided to lower its planned commission rate for app developers, parliamentary and industry sources said Monday, amid complaints from software makers over steep fees. Google Korea reported to parliament’s committee on science and technology that it will cut the 30 percent rate [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s app market ONE store has drawn attention as a possible alternative to Google’s Play store as local app developers worry about increasing costs over the U.S. tech giant’s decision to expand its 30 percent commission fee to all in-app digital goods purchases later this year. ONE store, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Google’s app store fees could increase by more than 150 billion won (US$136 million) in South Korea due to the U.S. tech giant’s new billing policy that expands its service commission to all in-app digital content purchases, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Last September, Google decided to make all app [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday that U.S. tech giant Google will take measures to provide stable services, becoming the first company to come under the country’s revised law that holds online content providers accountable for service errors. On Dec. 14 last year, multiple Google services, including YouTube, Gmail [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday said Google’s cloud gaming service will be available on its smart TVs as the South Korean tech powerhouse eyes to expand its TV sales with better service offerings. LG said it will be the first TV manufacturer to support Google’s Stadia via its smart [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – In response to regulatory moves in South Korean political and governmental circles that are focusing on Google Inc.’s commission policy, the U.S. tech giant is taking a two-track approach of seeking conciliatory dialogue and increasing pressure. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is known to have submitted an evaluation report [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. internet giant Google will have to submit a report on its service errors that caused inconvenience to Korean users under the revised telecommunication act, the Ministry of Science and ICT said Tuesday. Google suffered a global outage as its services, including Gmail, YouTube and Google Calendar, went down [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has signed a partnership with Google on smart home solutions as the South Korean tech giant tries to expand its presence in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector. Samsung said its IoT platform, SmartThings, will support Google Nest devices, including thermostats, cameras and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ceaseless efforts to support the use of “East Sea” to denote the body of water located to the east of the Korean peninsula seem to be treated with disrespect from Google Korea, with one of its local services making use of “Sea of Japan” to describe the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. said Monday that it will postpone enforcing a 30 percent commission on in-app purchases of digital content from its Play Store from next January to next September. Under the new policy set to be adopted in late September, Google plans to take a 30 percent commission on [...]