Blog Archives for the tag Korea

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Kakao Talk Introduces Free Calls to its Mobile Messaging Service

Korean mobile messaging app Kakao Talk has introduced free voice calls to its WhatsApp-like service, allowing its worldwide iPhone and Android users to make calls on the service for nothing…

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Team Europe Opens Office In Asia

Berlin-based Internet startup incubator Team Europe is expanding to Asia with the establishment of a “market-watch” office in Seoul, South Korea. It will be headed by German-Korean Ludolf Ebner-Chung, a…

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Global Music Site Viki Moves into Music After Signing up Record Labels

International-focused TV and video site Viki has made a significant move into the music space, after it announced deals with a number of record labels and agencies, most notably Warner Music,…

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K-Pop Comes to Facebook, Building on its Significant YouTube Presence

Have you heard of K-Pop? Two years ago the answer would almost certainly be no, unless you were living in Korea and other parts of Asia, but today the Korean…

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Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Reportedly Pass 9 Million Already

The Samsung Galaxy S III was unveiled in London at the beginning of this month but, just two weeks later, the long-awaited device is reported to have racked up 9 million…

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Evernote: Signups for New Chinese Service are "Off The Chart"

It’s been less than a week since Evernote unveiled its dedicated Chinese service, but already downloads of standalone Yinxiang Biji app are “off the charts”, according to Troy Malone, the…

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Smartphone Penetration Passes 50% as Authorities Recognise Benefits

Despite a late start, smartphones have now passed 50 percent penetration among South Korea’s mobile phone owners, according to new data released by the Korea Communications Commission, which praised the associated…

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3D Game Firm CMUNE Raises Record Funds from Skype Founder's Fund

Asian games developer and publisher CMUNE has made a significant announcement after revealing that it has raised “record” funding from Atomico, the international VC fund established by Skype founder Niklas Zennström. Speaking…

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Queues in Asia as Apple Launches New iPad in 12 new Countries

Apple’s new iPad has gone on sale in 12 new countries today, seeing brisk interest in the tablet device in Korea and Malaysia, which were the first to get it…

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Olaworks is Making Augmented Reality Smarter

Growing up watching movies like The Terminator, I always thought it would be amazing if humans too could have a visual system that could analyze we are looking at in…

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More Proof of May 22 Samsung Galaxy S III Launch

Samsung has dropped the clearest hint yet that its Galaxy S III smartphone — the firm’s  response to the iPhone 4S — will launch next month, after a Korean website…

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Samsung China Plant Plan to see Record $7Bn Investment

Samsung has confirmed that the memory chip production plant that it is planning to develop in China will cost $7 billion, making it the largest overseas project that the Korean…

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Samsung Tipped to Post Record Profits (Again)

Samsung is tipped to post record profit once again when it announces figures for business during the first quarter of the year, which are expected next month, according to a Korea Times report. Citibank…

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Samsung Galaxy S 'Value Pack' Hits Korea

Following much speculation, Samsung has released a ‘value pack’ upgrade for Galaxy S devices which allows users of range to enjoy some of the benefits of the latest Ice Cream…

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Codinator makes GUI Design for Apps Easy

Codinator is an efficient graphical user interface (GUI) design program made by South Korean startup Wit Studio. Until now, the software has only supported the niche and fairly unrecognized Windows Mobile…