Global News Archive
Zuckerberg In Korea: Face-to-face Meetings With Samsung And President Park
Zuckerberg (center) walks into Samsung Electronics’ building to meet with executives of the Korean tech giant. Samsung We wrote earlier that the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg will be in Korea (read the article here). The meeting with the Vice Chairman...
The Rise Of Collaborative Consumptions And Korea
Business is a zero-sum game. Collaboration is a plus-sum game. Everyone seems to be talking about “The Sharing Economy” – everybody literally gets a share of your meal, and vice versa. Take the Korean startup, Zipbob. So: Forget zero-sum games; people...
Kakao, Government, Startups: What Will 2013 Have In Store For Korea?
We wrote previously about the current situation in the South Korean startup ecosystem. We said that the global startup capital is declining whereas the Korean venture world is seeing more fundings, more startups, and more enthusiasm. The rise...
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg To Visit Korea At The End Of June. What Are Its Implications?
Facebook’s Co-Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will visit Korea at the end of this month, according to Yonhap News. Seeing that Bill Gates and Larry Page visited Korea recently, it seems likely that Zuckerberg, too, will discuss the future...
What’s Up In Korea This Week? [12. Jun]
KT Will Spend $2.65B Upgrading Network And Create Jobs Remember how KT said they set up a fund of USD 132 million by 2017 to help smaller and mid-sized firms in Korea earlier on this year? Well, according to Yonhap...
PRISM: Why Global Citizens Are Concerned
We thought it’s about time we wrote about the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM program, the latest phenomenon around the world today – and yet, it’s old news, because information is and has always been the ultimate power. This...
beSUCCESS 3 Morning Reads [3. Jun]
Good morning everybody! June is the last month for Q2 – hope you are all satisfied with the results you’re getting. Here are some beSUCCESS-approved readings for this morning: 1. The New “Handmade” (Part Three) This series from TechCrunch is all about...
Thinking Of Going Global? Three Things You Should Consider
International markets are too big an opportunity to pass up. Why allow physical borders to dictate the limits of your business? Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, once said that “if you have a product business and you aren’t focused...
For The First Time In 2013, Google Surpasses Apple In Tablets
For the first time this year, cheaper and smaller devices gained favor with the consumers. Google surpassed Apple in tablets -- Google's software will power more tablets than Apple's, or so Bloomberg reported. It is expected that Google's shares...