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Seoul Police Conduct Another Offline Google Search
Police raids at Google’s South Korean headquarters are becoming a regular occurrence. This morning, agents from Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) descended on Google’s Yeoksam-dong offices as...
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Exclusive: LivingSocial Makes Giant Push Into Asia With Acquisition of South...
LivingSocial has acquired Ticket Monster, one of the largest daily deals sites in South Korea. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move is a major one for LivingSocial in many ways, establishing...
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Ticket Monster's Daniel Shin Talks About Sale of South Korea's Biggest Deals...
As luck would have it, I was in South Korea this week and was able to talk to Daniel Shin, the CEO and co-founder of Ticket Monster, this country’s largest social buying site, which was acquired by...
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Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever
Researchers from security software concern McAfee say they have discovered the biggest series of computer intrusions ever, covering some 72 organizations and governments around the world, including the...
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AsiaD Adventures: Walt and Kara in Seoul (Video)
This week, my AllThingsD partner-in-crime Walt Mossberg and I are in Asia as part of our planning for the upcoming AsiaD conference in the fall. We’ll soon be announcing even more speakers for the...
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AsiaD Adventures, Japan Edition: Walt and Kara Visit Digital Tokyo! (Video)
On our weeklong trip to Asia in preparation for our upcoming AsiaD conference in the fall — including a stop in South Korea earlier in the week — Walt Mossberg and I have spent the last few days in...
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Apple Sued by 27,000 South Koreans
The group of South Koreans threatening to bring a class action suit against Apple for privacy violations in the country has finally done so. This morning, some 27,000 South Koreans sued the company,...
View ArticleSamsung Moves to Expand Tablet Business With Microsoft
Samsung Electronics Co. is preparing to expand its tablet-computer lineup by using a new version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software as the South Korean company’s products built around Google Inc.’s...
View ArticleWith No iPhone 5, Koreans Change View of Apple -- And Themselves
Apple Inc.’s rollout of a new version of iPhone 4 rather than the major redesign that many techies were expecting is being portrayed in South Korea as good news for the country’s big electronics...
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iPhone 4S Headed to 15 More Countries
Apple’s iPhone 4S is currently available in 29 countries. By the end of next week, it will be available in 44. On Tuesday, the company said that it is bringing the device to Hong Kong and South Korea,...
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Meet Kid Robot, Kibot: The Full AsiaD Demo (Video)
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next two weeks, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
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The LivingSocial Trio Talk Asian Expansion, Groupon and More: The Full AsiaD...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
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Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong on the Mobile Phone Wars: The Full AsiaD Interview...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
View ArticleTV Makers Seek Fatter Profits in Thinner Sets
Television manufacturers, stung by steep profit declines this year, will start making TV sets that are even thinner and lighter in hopes of sparking new consumer interest and driving average prices...
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South Korea Says Google Impeded Antitrust Probe
Google’s relationship with the South Korean government was never all that great to begin with, but now it seems to have slipped into a real downward spiral. The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has...
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How E-Commerce Is Expanding Internationally, One Package at a Time
Online shopping in the U.S. is growing at a fast clip, but retailers are realizing that another way to juice revenues is to open up their site to international markets — if they can manage the...
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ConsolidationVille Coming to Social Games Market in 2012
Even more social game consolidation is coming this year. And here’s the reason why: There are hundreds of game companies competing on Facebook, and Zynga is single-handedly grabbing 15 percent of all...
View ArticleGoogle Discloses a Pair of Overseas Probes
Google Inc. formally disclosed a pair of inquiries under way in Argentina and South Korea this week, adding to global scrutiny of the Internet company. Google said in a quarterly regulatory filing that...
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With Elpida Buy, Micron Leaps Into Second Place in World Memory Market
After buying the bankrupt Japanese memory-chip maker Elpida for about $2.5 billion, Idaho-based Micron Technology will jump into second place (behind Samsung) on the world market for memory chips,...
View ArticleAt Home, Samsung Seen as Underdog
SEOUL — After a U.S. jury ruled that Samsung Electronics Co. copied ideas from Apple Inc. to make smartphones and tablet PCs, a different view was heard in Samsung’s home country: That the two...
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