SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A major Japanese internet company partly owned by Naver, South Korea’s biggest web portal, is facing pressure from Tokyo to strip the Korean tech firm of its controlling stake after a data breach last year, an extraordinarily aggressive move that threatens to upend a rare alliance between corporate giants from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver is looking to take its online search capabilities global by releasing an AI-integrated search feature on its online messaging service Naver Line. Naver Line possesses a strong userbase in Japan and Southeast Asia. As all previous forays by South Korean search engines into foreign markets have been unsuccessful, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) –Naver Line has jumped ahead of its fellow South Korean instant messaging service KakaoTalk by upgrading its text delete capabilities. Previously, deleting a wrongly sent text would only make the mistake disappear on the sender’s screen, but the message would remain on the recipient’s device. After the announcement made by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean search engine leader Naver announced today that its AI speakers will become available for purchase on its music service website starting October 26. The special promotional deal will offer the capsule-shaped, Brown and Sally-inspired (popular emoji characters from Naver’s messaging service Line) AI speaker with a one-year [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The battle for AI speaker dominance is about to get heated as Naver and Kakao are sending out their very best “spokespersons” to the marketing front. According to tech industry insiders, Naver is planning to release its AI speaker “Wave” before the year is up. Concurrently, Kakao is making [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Bloomberg News reported on September 4 that Kakao Japan and Nomura Holdings are engaged in discussions for a possible IPO at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2020, bringing to light the Korean social media giant’s strategies to attract Japanese users. Though it enjoys wild success at home (43 million [...]
SEOUL, Oct 21 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE, an instant messaging app owned by South Korea’s Naver, reached a meaningful milestone in India, securing 30 million registered users there, up 20 million such users in just one year. Naver’s LINE, which was released in June last year, is competing against formidable rivals, such as WhatsApp which [...]