SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications acquired smartphone app SeoulBus as a stepping stone to expand its business into local online to offline (O2O) market and reinforce its mobile advertisement business. Daum, the second largest Internet portal in Korea to be merged with Kakao Inc. next month, announced on September 16 that it took [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Inc. said on September 5 that it would officially launch “KakaoPay,” a service to allow its members to make easy payments with their mobile devices. KakaoPay users can make small payments with the simple entry of a password on their smartphone after registering with the service with their [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As Kakao Inc. decided to jump to the fray in the local mobile coupon business, the online coupon companies which sell the digital coupons on the popular Kakao platform, are fretting over the mobile messenger giant’s possible unfair competition in the market, even considering a lawsuit against Kakao for breaching [...]