SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Local tech giant Kakao gave a little peak at the future of its flagship messenger Kakao Talk, suggesting that it will incorporate artificial intelligence to serve as a personal assistant. “Kakao Talk will resemble a personal assistant who understands the user best and can assist in every endeavor,” wrote [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – About six in 10 South Koreans use two or more mobile messaging apps, with KakaoTalk standing as the most-used chat service, a survey showed Friday. According to the survey of 279 people aged between 19 and 59, conducted by market researcher DMC Media, 64.1 percent of respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao has announced that it will launch a new service called Kakaonavi, an upgrade of a mobile navigation app that was previously known as Driver Kim. Unlike existing navigation apps, Kakaonavi allows users to share their current location, destination, and estimated time of arrival with friends through Kakao Talk. Since the [...]
SEOUL, Feb.21 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, Kakao will offer users the ability to view electricity bills through the mobile messenger KakaoTalk, and pay them through KakaoPay. Kakao announced that it will be launching ‘KakaoPay Bills’, an electronic bill payment and presentment (EBPP) service based on mobile messenger platforms. Kakao emphasized that it is [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy smartphone was selected as the most valuable brand in South Korea for the fifth consecutive year, a survey showed Sunday. The Samsung Galaxy phone ranked first in the brand survey by Seoul-based market researcher Brandstock, followed by E-Mart, a discount store chain [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) - Bank Wallet Kakao (Banka), the mobile financial service of KakaoTalk, will increase their charge and wire transfer limits during the next month. According to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), 17 domestic banks and the Korea Post have partnered with Banka. All 18 members of the alliance are rewriting the [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Talk is the most frequently used app in the world, according to Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trend report. For the first quarter of 2015, Kakao Talk was visited 55 times a day per user, based on an analysis of Quettra on 75 million users of Android devices around [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Global mobile messenger provider Viber said Monday it will appeal a South Korean court ruling that may ban its local operation, signaling a protracted battle with South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier, SK Telecom. “Because Viber believes the court’s decision was made in error, it is appealing the court’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of SNS among the whole time spent on the 50 most used apps in Korea is 40.3 percent, according to an announcement from Ranky.com, a market research company, on January 16. The company analyzed app usage times for the 50 most used apps by 60,000 mobile device users [...]
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