Kakao in talks to buy US fiction app in heated IP rivalry

South Korea's mobile giant Kakao Corp. is in negotiations to buy the management rights of US-based mobile fiction startup Radish Fiction for around ...
South Korea's mobile giant Kakao Corp. is in negotiations to buy the management rights of US-based mobile fiction startup Radish Fiction for around ...
Google Inc. will acquire 56.5 billion won ($50 million) worth of new Kakao Mobility Corp. shares, in a strategic investment in the South Korean mobi...
Morgan Stanley reclaimed its top position in South Korea's M&A advisor league table in the first quarter of this year for the first time in two ...
South Korea's GS Caltex Corp., aiming to become a logistics platform, will invest around 30 billion won ($26 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp. to str...
South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. announced on Mar. 27 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by China-ba...
Last year's expansion of contactless technologies and services has created a new salary gap among key industries and companies in South Korea. ...
Leading international law firms with offices in South Korea are gearing up for growing legal service demand from local companies in their push for m...
South Korean tech giant Kakao’s unlisted subsidiaries have posted record-high growth figures for the previous financial year. According to Kak...
Spotify Technology S.A., the world's largest music streaming service, has reached a licensing agreement with Kakao Entertainment Corp., to make musi...
South Korea-based Kakao Mobility Corp., a subsidiary of mobile giant Kakao Corp., has acquired the country's leading pet taxi service, Pet Me Up, in...
Kakao Corp. will split its stock on a five-for-one basis in April, which the South Korean mobile messaging app giant said would make the stock more ...
South Korea-based edtech startup Yanadoo is the latest affiliate of Kakao Corp., the country's largest messaging app operator, to prepare for an ini...
The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy $200 million worth of new shares in Kakao Mobility Corp. as a pre-IPO investment in the transportation arm of So...
South Korea-based mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. has posted an all-time earnings high for last year, thanks to robust growth of its core operatio...
South Korea-based mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. has reported an all-time high on last year's earnings, thanks to its core operations posting rob...
To leave the world a little bit better – a line from the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem What is Success and the status message...
Samsung Electronics Co., sitting on a cash pile of more than 100 trillion won ($90 billion), is actively pursuing mergers and acquisitions, with som...
Google Inc. is planning to invest around $270 million in Kakao Mobility Corp., the transportation arm of South Korea's No. 1 messaging operator Kaka...
Samsung Electronics Co. is well-geared up to chase M&A deals and expand its facilities over the next three years to make full use of its cash ho...
Samsung Electronics Co. has announced that it will pay record-high dividends to its shareholders this year and raise dividends further in coming yea...
Samsung Biologics Co. delivered forecast-beating earnings this week, with its sales topping 1 trillion won ($905 million) for the first time in its ...
South Korea’s leading mobile app operator Kakao Corp.’s affiliates are set to merge to become a new entity, Kakao Entertainment, heraldi...
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is lowering the bar for mergers and acquisitions by including potential rivals, which have yet to en...
Food delivery giant Delivery Hero SE is facing some time pressure to sell South Korea’s No. 2 food delivery app Yogiyo, estimated at 2 trillio...
South Korea-based Kakao Enterprise has topped 1 trillion won ($921.5 million) in enterprise value, just a year after its inception in 2019, follow...
South Korea’s major companies are sitting on a record amount of cash reserves, setting the foundation for the merger and acquisition (M&A)...
South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. and game developer NCSoft Corp. are looking to post their best-ever earnings for a second stra...
South Korea's mobile-only bank has wrapped up its $920.5 million rights offering, placing the enterprise value at around 9.3 trillion won ($8.6 ...
Credit Suisse has maintained its top position on South Korea’s M&A advisory league table in 2020, working on most of the high-profile deal...
Kakao Games Corp. has injected around 190 billion won ($173 million) into South Korean game company Neptune Corp., pouring in nearly half the proc...