Posts Tagged: Korea



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
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M-Story: A Personal Finance App From Korea With iCloud Integration

Readers may remember that I was very enthusiastic about Japanese finance application Zaim. And while...

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  • January 15, 2013
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Czech Data Startup BellaDati Establishes Korea Office, Expands Into Asia

When we heard about the expansion of Czech startup BellaDati, a cloud-based business analytics compa...

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  • December 19, 2012
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You’ve Come a Long Way Baby — 1,000 Days of KakaoTalk

Three days ago, December 11th marked the 1,000th day since the launch of Korean-made chat app KakaoT...

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  • December 14, 2012
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Japan’s DeNA and Korea’s KT Corporation Partner for Mobile Games Exchange

Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) announced today that it will be teaming up with KT Corporation (NYSE:K...

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  • December 14, 2012
  • at 11:55 am
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App Monetization Platform Metaps Capitalizes on Korea’s Affinity for Android

When we last heard from the folks at Tokyo-based Metaps three months back, the company informed us t...

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  • November 28, 2012
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PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ is the Top Viewed YouTube Video of All Time

A new post over on the Youtube Trends blog points out that over the weekend PSY’s ‘Gangn...

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  • November 26, 2012
  • at 12:00 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
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The Mobile Messenger War: What’s the Score?

Yesterday we pointed out that Chinese chat application WeChat (known as Weixin in Chinese) had surpa...

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  • January 17, 2013
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Indonesian Game Dev Gets Unexpected Props from Korean Star PSY

Korean artist PSY, who just recently hit the one billion mark for his Gangnam Style video on YouTube...

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  • December 26, 2012
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Noom Brings Weight-Loss Apps to Asia After Gaining Some Funding Muscle

Noom Inc., a mobile health & fitness developer, has announced that it has secured $2.6 million i...

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  • December 18, 2012
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Google Ties up with Kstartup to Support South Korean Entrepreneurs

Over on the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) blog today, the company is highlighting entrepreneurship in South K...

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  • December 14, 2012
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Korean Government Awards Google for Helping Spread Korean Culture

Korean pop star PSY’s smash-hit Gangnam Style video (sorry if I just got it stuck in your head...

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  • December 14, 2012
  • at 10:25 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
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StarCall App Lets K-Pop Stars Call You in Real Time

I’m a little out of touch with the music scene recently, but I hear the kids these days really...

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  • November 23, 2012
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WeMade’s Success in Mobile Builds on a Social Network

Korea’s largest game show, G-STAR 2012, was held in Busan from November 8th to the 10th. WeMade En...

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  • November 19, 2012
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