SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine, on Monday announced the global debut of its artificial intelligence (AI) and other breakthrough robotic technologies at an upcoming international exhibition. Naver will be showcasing its portfolio of 13 technologies for the first time at the Consumer Electronics Show [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The popular portal website Naver Corp. revealed yesterday that it will be implementing a new function on its website that allows users to replay home runs during Korean Series baseball matches airing live. The function is based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The technology automatically recognizes home run sequences [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator, Naver Corp., on Thursday announced a business blueprint that moves beyond its existing online and network business and focuses on technology that is linked to the living environment. “The key technological strategy that Naver is pushing is living environment intelligence,” Song Chang-hyun, the company [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Business Platform Corp., a cloud service provider under South Korea’s top webportal operator Naver Corp., said Friday it has partnered with Mirae Asset Daewoo, a local financial company, to provide high-performance computing (HPC) cloud solutions. HPC refers to the utilization of supercomputers and other high-end computers to carry [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a speech synthesis program that can imitate voices of a specific person with only a handful of samples. Naver said the solution can fully imitate a person by analyzing voice samples around four hours long, which is [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator, Naver Corp., said Monday that it will launch a music recommendation service that uses artificial intelligence (AI). The service, called VIBE, makes recommendations according to each user’s music preferences and patterns, Naver said. The service collects data that is then used to improve recommendations [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Maps, a mapping application powered by U.S. IT giant Google, attracted more users than a similar service provided by South Korean portal Naver Corp. in April, industry data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker WiseApp, Google Maps had 8.32 million users in April, above [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Wednesday it will stop editing news articles starting later this year amid mounting criticism over its neutrality in the wake of a sprawling online opinion rigging scandal. “Naver will stop editing news articles after the third quarter,” CEO Han Seong-sook told [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver will not introduce direct links to media outlets for its news service despite concerns over public opinion rigging and fake news. The web portal giant’s new reorganization plan will limit the number of comments left by the same account, but the company opted out of ‘outlinks’, which send readers [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant Internet portal and search engine, said Friday that it has rolled out the mobile version of its latest web browser. The PC version of “Whale” initially debuted in October 2017. The browser features omnitasking — a split-screen function that allows users to browse two websites in the same tab. [...]