![[Feature] Homegrown Online Retail Brand “11st” Maintains Top Position](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/11번가.jpg "[Feature] Homegrown Online Retail Brand “11st” Maintains Top Position")
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s homegrown online retail brand 11st is growing by leaps and bounds. According to data released by Korean Click, 11st took the No. 1 position among online retail sites in terms of unique visitor numbers for the month of May. Its rank in all Internet website was No. 4 after [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Mobile messenger service Line’s new sales platform, “Line Creators Market” attracts people’s attention and raises high expectations as a new cash cow for the service. According to Naver, operator of the messenger service, on June 17, the sales of Line Creators Market reached 1.7 billion won after just one [...]
Tokyo, Japan, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced that it has been named a Global Growth Company in 2014 by World Economic Forum. Global Growth Companies are a community determined by World Economic Forum which consists of companies that have achieved [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In a strategic business move, Korea’s No. 1 web search engine has introduced a brand new image-oriented search ads platform, which the company said is well suited to the rising number of mobile users. Naver Corp., Korea’s biggest online portal, announced it has strengthened its mobile search ads, pushing [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – On May 9, Naver App Store, run by Korea’s No. 1 web portal service provider Naver, announced that a feature which manages applications (apps) and memories installed on smartphones effectively has been added to the App Store. With the new feature, Naver App Store users can browse all the apps installed [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to the rising global sales, Naver achieved 638 billion won of sales during the first quarter of this year. Its operating profit and net profit recorded 189.8 billion won and 128.9 billion won, respectively. Over the same period of the previous year, its operating earnings grew 23.9 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, Korea’s largest search portal with more than 70 percent of the market, will close its open market “ShopN” in response to public criticism and a controversy following a Fair Trade Commission investigation on the company. It has been two years since Naver established ShopN in 2012. Naver said [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic mobile application businesses started to buckle down and knock on the door of the American market. The companies which used to focus on pushing into Southeast Asian markets have changed their course and are steering their way to the United States. According to industry sources, IT [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Donation seems something noble for ordinary people and they think about sending money to somewhere when it comes to donation. However, the donation trend is now changing drastically. Buying a bottle of moistener nearby a cosmetic shop can help starving children in Africa. Recently, a small cosmetics maker Sweet [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Bookpal, the company specializing in smartphone-based mobile e-book services, announced on January 22 its 2013 book content download numbers. According to the company, the total number of e-book downloads during the year 2013 was 9 million, of which 2 million were paid contents. The number of page views on [...]