SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp. has an insatiable appetite for platform businesses, spanning messenger, e-commerce, mobility, content and finance, and now it has earned another title: South Korea’s third-most valuable company. The nation’s dominant mobile messenger operator rapidly expanded its presence in the nation’s tech sector with a wide range of platform [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumers who want the best picture quality TVs available now will look to QLED models by Samsung Electronics and OLED TVs by LG Electronics, and they are likely to see 8K next to a price tag of several thousand dollars. 8K refers to the highest-resolution standard for content creation, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. profited more for every home appliance sold in the first half of 2018 compared with its bigger rival Samsung Electronics Co., industry data showed Friday. Samsung Electronics posted sales of 20.1 trillion won (US$17.8 billion) over the January-June period for the home appliances segment, above LG [...]