SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean IT giant Kakao has announced the signing of a business agreement with Lotte to develop new artificial intelligence services, including a mobile kiosk that will allow customers to place orders at restaurants and coffeehouses without having to line up. Kakao and Lotte Data Communication Company, retail giant Lotte’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Monday its artificial intelligence (AI) speaker was sold out on the first day of the preorder. Kakao, which also operates the country’s No. 2 portal, said it sold all of the 3,000 units of the Kakao Mini allocated for preorders [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Thursday it has partnered with tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector to tap deeper into the burgeoning industry. Kakao I, the company’s AI platform, will be integrated with Samsung’s voice recognition program, Bixby, to allow [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a statement released by the National Policy Committee, a report submitted by online-only moneylender Kakao Bank showed that elderly users over the age of 60 were significantly underrepresented in numbers relative to other age groups of users. Since its inauguration on July 27, the online bank has [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Messaging giant Kakao and search engines Google and Naver are the three largest mobile app makers in South Korea, a new industry report has revealed. Among Android smartphone users in the country, Kakao was branded the most popular mobile app maker both in the number of users and the average [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Doh Ga-young and Han Woo-jin consider each other just close friends. But people around them suspect things between them are more than that. The confused young adults slowly get to discover true feelings toward each other. So goes the story in “Something About Us,” a webtoon, or web-based comic [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean messaging giant Kakao is accelerating its efforts to expand the online presence of its much-loved emoticons by branching out into other services including Kakao TV and web portal Daum, as Kakao Friends has become one of the most recognized brands in the country. Speaking to the press [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Monday it has joined forces with scholars to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology as part of a broader effort to tap deeper into the prospective market. Under an agreement with Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean internet giant Kakao revealed plans yesterday to accelerate the development of its own artificial intelligence platform, which will be adopted in its messaging app KakaoTalk and online music streaming service Melon. As interest in AI technology continues to grow, the latest move from Kakao is expected to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., an internet company that operates the country’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Friday it will provide its map tools to local game developers from the first half of this year to help them produce a megahit like Pokemon Go. The move was disclosed by Namkoong Whon, the [...]