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Kakao Opens Mobile Circulation Platform to Sell Tangerines

Kakao Opens Mobile Circulation Platform to Sell Tangerines

SEOUL, Nov.11 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao has announced that it has opened a mobile circulation platform for Jeju tangerines called ‘Kakao Farmer Jeju’. ‘Kakao Farmer Jeju’ was established with the intention to select the best produce and deliver it to consumers when it is in its most delicious state. Since this is a trial [...]

SK Telecom’s Indoor LBS Platform Wizturn Applied to Kyobo Book Center

SK Telecom’s Indoor LBS Platform Wizturn Applied to Kyobo Book Center

Seoul, Korea, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that its advanced indoor location-based service (LBS) platform ‘Wizturn’ is bringing innovative changes to the O2O market by enabling the development and launch of ‘WingK,’ a new type of indoor-based service  for Korea’s largest bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center. Wizturn (www.wizturnhub.com) is SK [...]

Korean Beacon App ‘YAP’ Launched in Vietnam

Korean Beacon App ‘YAP’ Launched in Vietnam

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — YAP, Korea’s leading online to offline (O2O) commercial application, launched its app in Vietnam in collaboration with VNG, Vietnam’s largest technology company, on February 14. YAP is the first Korean app that commercialized ‘beacon’ devices using technology that it developed in-house. YAP has also partnered with Chinese, Japanese and American mobile [...]

Competition, Regulation to Push Delivery Apps’ Service Fees Down

Competition, Regulation to Push Delivery Apps’ Service Fees Down

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid controversy over the encroachment of sole proprietor small businesses by the rise of O2O (online to offline) business, it is expected that service fees of delivery apps, representing O2O business, will decrease over time. According to a report released by the KB Financial Group Research Institute, sales of [...]

“O2O,” a New Trend in Online Marketing

“O2O,” a New Trend in Online Marketing

SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As Naver, Korea’s largest online portal, launches a new “O2O” platform service to challenge “YellowID” of Daum Kakao, it is expected that competition in the area of O2O marketing will get fiercer. O2O marketing, or online-to-offline marketing, provides more personal experience by bringing people from online networks to offline networks by connecting [...]

Visualead Partners with Social Network Renren in China for Animation Visual QR Codes in Renren’s Mobile Application

Visualead Partners with Social Network Renren in China for Animation Visual QR Codes in Renren’s Mobile Application

BEIJING, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Visualead, an Offline-to-Online and Visual QR code startup, today announced its cooperation with Renren (NYSE:RENN – News), a leading Chinese social network, to incorporate Visualead’s Visual QR Code technology in Renren’s mobile app for iPhone and Android. Visualead’s technology turns any image, profile picture, GIF animation, and even video [...]