Tag Archives: Korea

Samsung Pay Mini Web Payments Service to Be Launched in South Korea This Quarter Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it will launch a mobile web payments service for all smartphones powered by Google Inc’s Android mobile operating system in South Korea in the first quarter. The service, called Samsung Pay Mini, will allow Android smartphones to ... Read More »

South Korea’s antitrust regulator said on Friday it is looking into whether Google has violated the country’s anticompetition laws, acknowledging formal scrutiny of the global internet search company for the first time. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) disclosed the investigation in a brief statement, without commenting on the nature of the probe nor any potential antitrust violations. A person ... Read More »

After EU, South Korea to probe Google. (Representational Photo) SEOUL:  South Korea’s anti-trust agency is investigating Google for alleged abuse of its market dominance, a report said, a week after the EU filed anti-trust charges against the US tech giant. The probe by the South’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is focused on whether Google is unfairly forcing smartphone makers to ... Read More »

quickly after being noticed on line, a a twin of the facebook social community reputedly installation in North Korea has been hacked. The website, StarCon, is modeled on the well-known social network, however in its North Korean incarnation is referred to as “high-quality Korea’s Social network“. Like its multi-billion greenback cousin, according to RT on line, the North Korean web ... Read More »