Kakao Cloud
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Cloud computing
NHN, Intel team up to take on cloud business
South Korean IT heavyweight NHN Corp. and US-based tech giant Intel Corp. have entered into a strategic partnership to boost their presence in the c...
Nov 26, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver, Kakao unsettled by Google's in-app payment policy
Global tech giant Google’s in-app payment policy has been coolly received by South Korea’s leading platform companies, fueling criticism...
Nov 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao, Google in talks over mobility partnerships
Kakao Mobility Corp., the transportation arm of South Korea's No. 1 messaging operator Kakao Corp., is in talks with global IT giant Google over pot...
Nov 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Kakao webtoon platform Piccoma becomes No.1 grossing app worldwide
Kakao Corp., South Korea's platform giant, announced on Nov. 9 that its webtoon (digital comics) platform Piccoma has become the No. 1 grossing mobile...
Nov 09, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Kakao’s Q3 sales, operating profit soar on e-commerce, online ad gains
South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said Thursday its operating profit and sales jumped to their all-time highs in the third quarter...
Nov 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
SAP joins growing competition in S. Korea's cloud market
SAP, a German enterprise software giant, is expected to heat up competition in South Korea's cloud market as it unveils plans to build a data center i...
Nov 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bond issues
Kakao's exchangeable bond issue lures global investors
South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is raising the price of shares to be converted from its exchangeable bond issue in Singapore on ...
Oct 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Teachers' Credit Union
Korean teachers' fund pockets sweet returns from US cloud-based platform
The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU) has secured returns nearly four times its $37.6 million investment in the US cloud-based platform provider El...
Oct 12, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Kakao Pay set to be Korea's first mobile-payment fintech to go public
Kakao Pay Corp. is set to become South Korea’s first mobile-payment fintech company to go public as the company kicks off preparations for an in...
Sep 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Foreign cloud service providers led by Amazon, MS play big in Korea
Global cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking a greater share of South Korea’s serverless computing market, where ...
Sep 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
S. Korea's Kakao Work to rival Slack, messenger platform apps
Kakao Enterprise Corp., the artificial intelligence service unit of South Korea’s Kakao Corp., has launched a business messenger platform to com...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao Games
Kakao Games shares hit upper limit for two consecutive days, further fueling IPO hype
Kakao Games Corp. shares reached the daily upper limit for the second consecutive day on Sept. 11, pushing the company to the third place on KOSDAQ wi...
Sep 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao Games
Kakao Games raises whopping $49.3 bn in subscriptions fueling IPO hype
Kakao Games Corp. has set a fresh record raising over 58.6 trillion won ($49.3 billion) in deposits during its two-day public subscription on Sep...
Sep 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Kakao Games makes a splash; raising over $13.5 bn in public subscription deposits
Kakao Games Corp. has raised over a staggering 16 trillion won ($13.5 billion) in deposits during the first day of its public subscription on Septembe...
Sep 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao Games
Kakao Games bookbuilding draws record-high demand
Kakao Games Corp. posted record-high demand during its bookbuilding for institutional investors on August 25 and 26, according to the company's regula...
Aug 31, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao Games
Kakao Games gears up to become Korea’s IPO blockbuster of the year
Kakao Games Corp. is set to be South Korea’s biggest initial public offering of the year backed by overwhelming demand seen during its bookbuild...
Aug 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao Games
Updated: Kakao Games to shore up M&A with IPO proceeds – CEO
Kakao Games Corp. will use proceeds from the initial public offering to carry out active M&A among game sectors, said Namkoong-whon, the company's...
Aug 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Kakao founder becomes Korea’s second-richest stockholder amid COVID-19 era
Brian Kim (Kim Bum-soo), founder and chairman of South Korea’s biggest mobile messaging app operator Kakao Corp., has become the country’s...
Aug 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Why Korean online giants Kakao and Naver soar amid global pandemic
Shares of South Korean online giants Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. recorded all-time highs last week, ahead of their quarterly earnings results and on e...
Jul 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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US, HK public funds join TPG-led group to co-invest $50 mn in Kakao Mobility
Two US state pension funds and a Hong Kong public fund have invested 50 billion won ($47 million) in aggregate to buy a minority stake in South Korea’...
Feb 21, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao
카카오가 새로운 리더십 구축에 나선다. 사회적 책임 경영을 강화하고 혁신 기업으로 도약하기 위해서다.여민수·류영준 체제로 개편카카오는 25일 이사회를 열고 여민수 카카오 대표와 류영준 카카오페이 대표를 공동대표 내정자로 보고했다고 밝혔다. 두 대표 내정자는...
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Korean games
Kakao Games
Kakao GamesOperating profit soared by 72% to 114.3 billion won from a year earlier.Sales more than doubled to 1.0 trillion won over the same period.Mo...
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