Posts Tagged: kakao


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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...

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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 milli...

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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 $...

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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 mobi...

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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 u...

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  • January 18, 2013
  • at 1:50 pm
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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 mark...

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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 ...

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  • November 20, 2012
  • at 9:00 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 publis...

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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 applicat...

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 11:58 am
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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 ...

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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 Vietnames...

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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 fea...

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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 announc...

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  • November 28, 2012
  • at 8:48 am
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Japan’s DeNA Launches ‘comm’ Voice and Chat Application

Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) has just launched its very own voice/chat application c...

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  • October 23, 2012
  • at 12:10 pm
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