Posts Tagged: kakao


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Friendster to Promote KakaoTalk in Malaysia, Sets up Kakao Malaysia Subsidiary

In a big move into Malaysia, Friendster has agreed with Korean startup Kakao to help promote its chat and social messaging apps KakaoTalk an...

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  • June 4, 2013
  • at 3:58 pm
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How KakaoTalk Grew From a Startup to a Giant Mobile Platform (INTERVIEW)

Like any startup, Kakao’s road to success was paved with blood and sweat.

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  • May 8, 2013
  • at 10:30 am
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Kakao Launches KakaoPage, a Marketplace for Anyone to Publish Digital Content

l KakaoPage marketplace was launched just two days ago with over 500 individual and corporate publishers who provide about 8,000 pieces of d...

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  • April 11, 2013
  • at 10:32 pm
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Coffee Chat: KakaoTalk’s Growth From Startup (Live Blog)

Next up on stage, Sirgoo Lee. He’s the Co-CEO of popular South Korea social messaging application, KakaoTalk. They’ve had an int...

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  • April 4, 2013
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American Copycat: MessageMe is Just a Clone of Popular Asian Chat Apps

American mobile chat app MessageMe has been generating a lot of buzz since its launch just a couple of weeks ago, and with good reason. Tech...

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  • March 20, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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KakaoTalk Releases Vietnamese New Year Stickers

KakaoTalk, South Korea’s number one messaging app, has released new stickers for the Vietnamese market this week. With Vietnamese New ...

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  • January 22, 2013
  • at 7:00 pm
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KakaoTalk Introduces Telkomsel Carrier Billing and Christmas Items

Korean-made chat app KakaoTalk is keeping quite busy this Christmas holiday, introducing two new features on its app: a carrier billing part...

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  • December 25, 2012
  • at 10:00 am
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Kakao Launches Free Group Voice Chat with Some Interesting Features

After a day of testing the service to ensure call quality was good enough, Korea-based Kakao announced today that it has launched what it ca...

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  • November 28, 2012
  • at 8:48 am
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Kakao Launches KakaoHome, A Social Android Launcher For Your Smartphone

Kakao, the maker of Korean mobile chat app, KakaoTalk, has launched KakaoHome a launcher for Android users. At first glance, it feels a litt...

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  • May 14, 2013
  • at 7:18 pm
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KakaoTalk’s Growth Chart: Hitting 90 Million Users Soon

Mobile chat messaging app, KakaoTalk, currently has 89 million users and is closing in onto 90 million.

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  • May 3, 2013
  • at 9:08 am
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KakaoTalk Reveals $45 Million Revenue, $7 Million Profit

Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee revealed that KakaoTalk made $7 million in profit in 2012, from revenue of $45 million.

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 1:03 pm
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KakaoTalk Hits 10 Million Downloads in Japan

KakaoTalk says in a blog post today that it has hit 10 million downloads in Japan.

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  • April 2, 2013
  • at 3:39 pm
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KakaoTalk: From Startup to a Giant Mobile Platform (Startup Asia Preview)

KakaoTalk has been around slightly more than 1,000 days. In those three short years, the Korean mobile messaging app has grown from a startu...

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  • March 18, 2013
  • at 9:29 am
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NHN Japan’s Line Chat App Passes 100 Million Users

As we mentioned in our post yesterday, NHN Japan’s Line application has been slowly creeping up on the impressive milestone of 100 mil...

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  • January 18, 2013
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As Chat App Wars Intensify, KakaoTalk Makes a Push in Japan

Recently we’ve written much about the success of NHN Japan’s Line, both in its home market and abroad. The chat platformed has b...

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  • December 20, 2012
  • at 10:00 pm
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Recipe for Domination? Korea’s Kakao Mixes Messaging and Gaming, Goes Global

Kakao Corporation’s messaging app KakaoTalk has been at the fore of a wave of Asian chat apps burning up handsets across the region. T...

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  • November 20, 2012
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