SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the ICT sector accounted for 15.7 percent of all such M&As, falling behind other major technology-driven countries, a report from the Institute for International Trade showed Monday. According to the report, 16.2 percent of all M&As around the globe last year [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of “smart” farms integrated with the latest ICT technology has increased significantly recently, spurring a concomitant rise in productivity. This is according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, which announced these results at the Korea Innovation Growth Symposium held yesterday at the R&D Complex [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – About 800,000 jobs are expected to be lost by 2030, in such areas as retail sales, driving, shipping and cleaning, due to technological advances driven by the fourth industrial revolution, a study showed Thursday. But the revolution is expected to create 920,000 more jobs in information and communication technology, engineering, healthcare, culture and arts, and other areas, the labor ministry study conducted jointly by state and civilian research institutes showed. The [...]
BAAR, Switzerland, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Ascom (SWX:ASCN.SW), a global solutions provider focused on healthcare ICT and mobile workflows, announces today in Las Vegas at HIMSS, Booth #4212, a new approach to delivering optimized digital clinical information flows with the Ascom Healthcare Platform. Delivering integrated and orchestrated clinical workflow solutions, the Ascom Healthcare Platform closes [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ascom (SWX:ASCN.SW), the global solutions provider focused on healthcare ICT and mobile workflow solutions, will showcase the sophisticated Digistat suite of clinical data management modules at the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress 2018. Digistat is a suite of software modules that can be configured into numerous [...]
BAAR, Switzerland, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Munson Healthcare, a nine hospital non-profit Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) serving the state of Michigan, selected Ascom (SWX:ASCN.SW), the leading global healthcare Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provider, for a comprehensive technology retrofit of its flagship Munson Medical Center. The CHF 1.1 million agreement signed in the second half [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to create 260,000 jobs in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector by 2022, the ICT ministry said Tuesday. According to a roadmap crafted and announced by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the government will create the jobs by fixing relevant policies and utilizing the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Olympics will likely be a showcase of South Korean know-how in state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT), with mobile operators and carmakers to highlight their prowess at the world’s biggest winter sports competition. KT Corp., the country’s No. 1 fixed-line Internet operator, will test run [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists have developed the technology to manufacture a device that can quickly and precisely detect pathogens, the ICT ministry said Sunday. The team led by Yoo Yeong-eun of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials developed the microfluidic device that can be further commercialized [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday that it will open two additional new complexes to promote virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology as the country aims to become a global powerhouse in the sectors. The two centers will be set up at Korea National University Of Arts [...]