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Introduction to Top 100 Korean Tech Startups You Should Know: Part 3
2014년 03월 20일

Demoday, a web platform for Korean Startups, recently came up with a list of 100 hot Korean startups in 2013, and we thought this might be a great chance to write an introduction to the Korean startup world. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we will introduce you to 10 startup companies that got into the list in alphabetical order. Here’s our list for this week: Cosmic Color Category: Commerce Key People: Jerry Yang…

Cisco Aggressively Expanding Into Korea, Plans Long Term Agreements with KT and Samsung
2014년 03월 17일

KT – Cisco team up for 5G network Korean telecommunications giant KT said recently that it aims to jointly develop a fifth-generation (5G) network with Cisco Systems under new corporate initiatives being pursued by KT CEO Hwang Chang-gyu. “While 5G is still just a concept rather than a reality, you should keep in mind that being proactive means thinking and acting ahead of anticipated trends,” said a KT executive. The remarks come…

Startup Asia Returns To Singapore May 7 and 8 2014
2014년 03월 13일

Following the success of TechInAsia’s previous Startup Asia event held in Jakarta last November, TechinAsia.com, Asia’s largest English-language technology and startup blog in Asia, is gearing up for another round of conference with Startup Asia Singapore 2014. The event will be held May 7-8, right in the heart of Biopolis, Singapore’s deep tech research center. Startup Asia Singapore 2014 will feature, as seen at last year’s Jakarta event, a conference, a Startup…

Shifting Tides: The Korean Portal Market in Flux as Naver Eats Daum, and Nate (and Google Emerges)
2014년 03월 13일

Between 1997 and 2001, 3 web portal giants were born in Korea in a mini .com boom that mirrored similar in the west. Daum, Naver and Nate utilized the incredible IT infrastructure that had been built through a massive, strategic cash injection from the Korean government that aimed (and succeeded) in powering Korea to the status of one of the most progressive technology hubs in the world. This legacy still prevails and…

Google Lends Its Name To Korean Mobile Start-ups To Avoid Costly ‘Kakao Tax’(UPDATE: Not True)
2014년 03월 04일

A Google spokesperson has reached out to TechInAsia who also posted this news, and pointed out that “it hasn’t done or offered any of the things described in this post.” References  were initially sourced from ZDnet Korea (http://www.zdnet.co.kr/news/news_view.asp?artice_id=20140219145110). They have since taken down the articles used as reference for this article. We apologize for the inaccuracy of this post. Korea has long been a brand-obsessed shopping nation. Now Google aims to assist up-and-coming app…

Top News Items From Korean Tech: Mobile Commerce Grows, Naver Shares Bounce Back, Pantech in Trouble
2014년 03월 03일

Mobile Shopping Users In Korea Exceed 20M For First Time A recent survey has shown that Koreans using mobile shopping applications has grown such that there are now more mobile shoppers than there are KakaoGame players in Korea. According to Rankey.com who conducted the survey, the number of shopping app users totaled 21.63M, as of January 2014. This figure is 2.7M higher than the number of KakaoGame Play users and represents a…

앱 내 정보까지 검색이 가능한 퀵시, 모바일 앱 계의 구글을 꿈꾸다
  ·  2014년 02월 26일

마이크로소프트(Microsoft), 스프린트(Sprint) 등 거대 IT회사에게 모바일 어플리케이션(이하 앱) 검색 서비스를 제공하는 퀵시(Quixey)에서 새로운 검색 기술을 발표한다. 퀵시는 기존의 앱 검색 기능에서 한발 더 나아가 앱 내 정보까지 통합 검색할 수 있는 서비스를 곧 론칭할 예정이다. 구글이 춘추전국시대와 같았던 90년대 웹 검색 시장을 검색 기능 하나로 평정하며 세계 최고가 된 지금 퀵시는 모바일 앱 계의 구글을 꿈꾸고 있다. 퀵시는 지난 2012년부터 현재까지 구글 에릭 슈미츠(Eric Schmidt) 회장의 이노베이션 인디버스(Innovation Endeavors)를 포함 알리바바(Alibaba), 아틀란틱…

Two Top Stories From Samsung at Mobile World Congress This Week
2014년 02월 25일

Samsung unveils Tizen-based wearable devices Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of smartphones, unveiled its first wearable devices that run on its own mobile operating system Tizen in Spain on Sunday, as it seeks to break its heavy reliance on Google Inc.’s Android software. The unveiling of the Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, Samsung’s successors to the Galaxy Gear, which was released in September last year, also comes as…

음악을 입은 페이스북, 와이드(Whyd) : 이스라엘 그녀의 Startup Interview
  ·  2014년 02월 25일

 같은 캠퍼스의 친구가 무엇을 하는지, 친구의 사생활이 궁금해서 나온 것이 페이스북이라면, 음악에 대해서도 같은 질문을 해보자. 이어폰을 끼고 음악을 듣고 있는 친구는 어떤 음악을 듣고 있는지. 서로의 음악을 공유하기 위한 ‘음악을 입은 페이스북’이 와이드(Whyd)다. 와이드는 사용자들이 다양한 스트리밍 사이트에서 듣는 음악들을 모두 한 곳에서 스트리밍해서 들을 수 있게 해주는 음악애호가들을 위한 소셜네트워크이다. 와이드는 2012년에 질레스 포우팔딘(Gilles Poupardin), 지에 멩-게랄드(Jie Meng-Gerard) 그리고 유발 이얄(Yuval Eyal)이 창업했다.  와이드는 공동대표 세 명이 각각 이스라엘, 중국, 프랑스 출신이다. 인터뷰이인…

Korea Stands Out In Asia As a Key Test Market For Global Tech Companies, Including Facebook
2014년 02월 24일

There has been much talk about Facebook’s inability to crack the tough, localized Korean market, but in an interview with Facebook’s top brass in Korea, this situation seems to be improving. Korea is a key test market for Facebook and this should send a message to other global tech companies hoping to do business in Korea, particularly those engaged with expansion on mobile. It was also proven last year that Facebook was taking…

K-Glass, Faster and More Powerful than Google Glass
2014년 02월 21일

The researchers at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) announced that they developed a head-mounted display–30 times faster processing speed compared to that of Google Glass. ‘K-Glass’, developed by Yoo Hoi-Jun, Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, and his team, is a high-performance, extremely low-powered head-mounted display (HMD) embedding an augmented reality (AR) chip–30x faster and with 3 to 12x longer operating time than Google Glass. Despite the sensation that Google created…

As Facebook Buys WhatsApp, What’s The Future of Korea’s Top Messaging App, Kakao Talk?
2014년 02월 20일

Kakao Corp., developers of Korea’s favorite messaging service and social platform, Kakao Talk, will be listing its stock publicly next May. This follows the recent news that SundayToz also successfully listed its stock in August 2013, and demonstrates further growth in the domestic tech industry, that has been attracting much attention in the international press attention recently. What’s more interesting though is the potential opportunity that Facebook has presented following today’s news that…

Last Chance to Apply for JFDI’s Current Session, Asia’s Top Accelerator in Singapore
2014년 02월 20일

The application period for JFDI’s next session is open, but only for a few short days, before decisions are made about which founders will join the program this time around. Apply here now. In the past year JFDI has worked with 19 teams from all over Asia and as program Director, Ray Wu, looked back on his experience leading entrepreneurs he realized the importance of what JFDI is doing to build the startup community in…

Google is Actually Doing Well In Korea, Catching Up To Local Players In Ad Revenue
2014년 02월 20일

Google, which has been relatively slow in expanding its market presence in South Korea, is now fast catching up to local rivals in display Ad sales (one segment of online advertising), according to industry sources. This news will be a surprise to many who have been watching Google’s advance in Korea with skepticism, as reported by beSUCCESS only a month ago.   This news will also fall sweetly on the ears of…

Asian Chat Apps, Like Kakao Talk, Look Likely To Upset The Global Tech Establishment
2014년 02월 19일

Reuters: Asian chat services KakaoTalk, LINE and WeChat threaten to overturn the mobile order of things, usurping the role of Google Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and telecoms carriers as gatekeeper to the consumer. Where these internet and telecoms giants once controlled the lucrative choke points of the industry, social messaging services are fast emerging as an alternative distribution channel for adverts, apps, and goods and services. For example, Tencent Holdings’ WeChat allows its more than…

LG Aims For No. 3 Global Smartphone Spot in 2014, Unveils G Pro 2
2014년 02월 17일

With the launch of a large-screen smartphone-tablet hybrid on Thursday, LG Electronics is attempting to achieve an ambitious goal:  regain the No. 3 spot in the global smartphone market place. It may be a long shot. Last month, Chinese PC maker Lenovo announced plans to buy Google’s Motorola Mobility handset unit for $2.9 billion. There has been a lot of coverage in the press about the recent Lenovo-Motorola deal, but internally LG has been focusing on boosting their own…

Rakuten Acquires Viki for $200M
2014년 02월 10일

Reported by AllThingsD on Septemer 1st 2013 Japan’s Internet e-commerce giant Rakuten is set to purchase Viki, a premium video site that has been described as “Hulu for the rest of the world.” The deal was set to be announced next week, but after I queried the company about it, its CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani (whose nickname is Mickey), confirmed the transaction, although he declined to give the price. That would be $200 million, according…

One Navigation Industry, Two Different Paths
2014년 02월 07일

All navigation manufacturers are facing an increasingly challenging market. While Apple and Google offer built-in or free software in the US, Korean Telecom companies offer even more state-of-the-art navigation software, informing drivers of speed limit zones and locations of traffic enforcement cameras. Despite the similar kind of market pressure in the face of evolving smartphone apps, the navigation manufacturers in the two markets seem to be moving in opposite directions. While American…

조용하고 은밀하게, 익명성과 휘발성 강조된 3세대 SNS가 온다
  ·  2014년 02월 06일

메시지를 확인하면 10초 만에 자동 삭제되는 유령 메신저 ‘스냅챗’이 돌풍을 일으키면서, 이를 기점으로 SNS의 신(新) 역사가 시작되고 있다. 스냅챗이 사람들에게서 읽어낸 니즈는 ‘휘발성’이다. 일부 매체에서는 ‘잊혀질 권리를 보장해주는 메신저’라고 소개하기도 했는데, 분명 자신의 이름을 단 흔적들이 어딘가에 흘려져 있다는 건 부담스러운 일이다. 최근에는 이런 휘발성에 덧붙여 아예 이름이 드러나지 않는 SNS가 등장했다. 이름 없이 소셜 네트워킹이 가능할까 싶지만, 익명 게시판에 더 솔직하고 적나라한 이야기들이 오고 갔던 걸 떠올려보면 그리 새로운 일도 아니다….

Korean-American Is First To Benefit From A “Startup Visa” In Korea
2014년 02월 05일

The Korean government has just announced the long-awaited news that the first “Start-up Visa” in Korea has been issued to a Korean-American entrepreneur, Jason Lee CEO of J.J. Lee Company.  It is unknown why he was not able to apply for an F-4 visa, which is available for non-Koreans with Korean heritage, but it marks another stride forward in Korea’s massive push towards establishing its position as one of the world’s most vibrant…