BEIJING, June 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Digital wallets1 adoption is growing in China, according to a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. (FORR). The growth is attributed to the burgeoning eCommerce market, explosive growth of smartphone penetration, and mobile payment technologies in recent years that have made digital wallets a convenient payment option. Aggressive promotional [...]
LONDON, June 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–The LBS market continues to grow strongly and with the arrival of always-on ubiquitous location, ABI Research believes that the market is ready to truly support location based advertising efforts. In Western Markets, a third generation of location based services is now underway. It has forecast retail/shopping, ambient intelligence, hyperlocal [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – AOA, a seven member K-pop girl group, released its new song and music video “Short Hair” on June 19. The members transformed themselves as cheerleaders and showed their cute and sexy appearance. Especially in the music video, they showed of three kinds of dances called “some dances.” Those are [...]
BEIJING, June 20, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Tencent, China’s leading online communications, social and entertainment services company, kicked off its World Cup Channel when the games began the morning of June 13 in Brazil, bringing real-time coverage and a host of World Cup-related features to hundreds of millions of Tencent users via their mobile terminals and PCs. [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean game companies are eyeing the Chinese market as they experience a limited growth in the domestic market due to cutthroat competition. The volume of the Chinese mobile game market is estimated to reach about 3.9 trillion won (23 billion yuan) this year, an 80-percent increase from 1.85 trillion [...]