Posts Tagged: Korea


Samsung Galaxy S4 sales to hit 10 million in under 1 month

Samsung CEO Hails 10 Million Galaxy S4 Sales in 3 Weeks, Hints at 100 Million in Future

Samsung (005930:KS) co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun has today hailed the company’s new Galaxy S4 phone as it...

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  • May 17, 2013
  • at 9:55 pm
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The Growth Story and Future of Mobile Chat App Giant LINE

Popular mobile messaging chat app Line was created by NHN Japan, with Japanese and Korean team inspi...

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  • May 15, 2013
  • at 9:08 pm
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Chester Roh: The Story of a Hacker-Turned-Entrepreneur Who Sold His Company to Google

Chester Roh (pictured) started his journey as an entrepreneur at the Korea Advanced Institute of Sci...

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  • May 10, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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How Memebox Bootstrapped to Become a $1 Million Company

How Memebox Bootstrapped to Become a $1 Million Company (VIDEO)

We had our second ever Tech in Asia Meetup in Singapore. This one featured Hyungseok Dino Ha, CEO an...

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  • May 6, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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How A Korean Startup Uses Ultrasound Tagging To Drive Up Sales

Perples is a Korean mobile technology startup that enables smartphones to display relevant content u...

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  • May 2, 2013
  • at 9:48 am
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Korean Supermarket Uses a Guiding Light to Point Out Discounts on Your Smartphone

We’ve seen Korean supermarket chain Emart (KRX:139480) do some innovative stuff before, like its s...

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  • April 17, 2013
  • at 3:00 pm
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Qoo10 Singapore Hits 900,000 Members, Transacting $73 Million in Sales in 2012

Qoo10 revealed that in 2012, its Singapore operations transacted US$73 million in sales. It has a to...

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  • April 8, 2013
  • at 1:08 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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Jimmy Rim, The Youngest CEO Running a VC Firm in Korea

Born in Korea and graduated from KAIST, a well-known engineering college in Korea, JimmyRim is the C...

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  • May 16, 2013
  • at 9:08 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...

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  • May 14, 2013
  • at 7:18 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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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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These Are the 20 Startups Doing Battle at Korea’s beLAUNCH 2013

South Korea’s biggest tech conference, beLAUNCH 2013, opened today in the Gangnam district of Seou...

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  • May 1, 2013
  • at 1:30 pm
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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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Sharing Session: An Introduction to Korea’s Startup Ecosystem

James Jung, Founder and CEO at beSUCCESS, stepped up to the plate here at Startup Asia to share with...

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  • April 4, 2013
  • at 12:15 pm
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Between has 200,000 Downloads in Southeast Asia, 2.9 Million Globally

(Update: @sonofsarah says that all download numbers are BS. True. So here you go: Between has over 9...

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  • March 27, 2013
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