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Kakao Mobility dominates South Korea’s taxi-hailing market, with a 96% market share as of 2022, far outpacing competitors Uber, TADA, and I’M Taxi. The Kakao T app serves as the primary ...
South Korean Internet company Kakao has announced plans to build an AI data center in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province. According to a Google-translated local news report, Kakao has ...
Although Kakao Entertainment already had a corporate presence in North America, the new subsidiary was established to support the growing scale of its overseas business and ensure smoother operations.
Four years after it launched in Korea, Kakao Games’ F2P open-world MMORPG Odin: Valhalla Rising is now available globally on ...
Korean business media outlet Hankook Economy reported on April 8 that Kakao, one of the biggest tech companies in Korea, has signaled its intention to sell its subsidiary Kakao Entertainment ...
Kakao CEO Shina Chung (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announces a joint venture in a press conference in Seoul, Korea on February 4, 2025. Billionaire Kim Beom-su’s Kakao on Tuesday announced a ...
Kakao Pay, a leading mobile payment service in South Korea, was recently found by the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) to have shared the personal credit information of 40.45 million ...
“Kakao is at a pivotal moment,” said Wi Jong-hyun, a professor of business management at Chung-Ang University. “It needs to define what to keep and what to let go, focusing its energy on ...
Kakao Entertainment, the parent company of webtoon and web novel company Tapas, has announced that it has established a new subsidiary here in the United States. The new company will be called Kakao ...
Kakao Map posted even sharper growth, with March MAU jumping 10.8 percent from the previous month to 11.71 million -- far outpacing Google Maps with a 3.1 percent increase and Naver Map with a 2.1 ...
South Korea's leading internet companies, Naver and Kakao, released their first-quarter financial results for 2025, revealing starkly different outcomes driven by their respective approaches to ...