Chief of world’s most popular dating app says company will expand service to social networking for millennials in South Korea

Samsung to mass-produce industry’s most compact image sensor for full-screen smartphones in Q1, but refuses to confirm Galaxy S10 will adopt sensor

LG Chem, Samsung SDI, SK Innovation anticipate improved annual earnings for 2018, better market conditions this year

The global market for 8K TVs is expected to post weaker-than-expected growth this year amid a lack of available high-resolution content, market watchers said Monday. South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. boasted their 8K TVs with quadruple the pixels of Ultra HD models in the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, promoting them as new growth drivers in the premium segment.  (Yonhap)Despite the technological advances, industry watchers point out that the

Amid rumors about whether LG Electronics intends to join the upcoming foldable smartphone competition, a source confirmed to The Korea Herald on Sunday that the company will showcase a foldable smartphone exclusively to its business-to-business customers at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona next month. “LG will showcase the foldable smartphone under development to its VIP customers at a private booth to be set up the MWC,” said the source, who is familiar with the company’s mobile communic

South Korean home appliance makers have showcased their latest lineup of air conditioners with artificial intelligence capabilities and advanced air purification features to target the premium market, industry sources said Thursday.Industry leader Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its latest wind-free air conditioners that gently disperse cold air through micro air holes and saves energy with advanced inverters. (Yonhap)The new cooling system features Samsung's Bixby digital assistance to better

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to launch its first smartphone with a camera hole in the display itself in South Korea later this month, industry sources said Wednesday. The world's largest phone maker plans to release Galaxy A8s in the domestic market in the coming weeks, following its unveiling in China last month, according to a Samsung official.  (Yonhap)The Galaxy A8s comes with a 6.4-inch screen with a 24-megapixel selfie camera. It also has three cameras on the back. The battery capacity st

　South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom on Tuesday unveiled a new text-message service designed to more efficiently deliver videos and pictures -- a move that industry watchers said signaled an intention to compete against the country’s top mobile messenger service, Kakao Talk. 　SK Telecom said the new system, based on technology called Rich Communication Services, allows users to send high-resolution pictures and short video clips without consuming massive data and incurring high fees. 　Accordi

South Korean tech giant Kakao said Tuesday it will suspend the test run of its carpooling service, following a monthslong standoff with taxi drivers who claim the business will threaten their operations.   　In a statement, Kakao said the company will no longer provide the trial carpooling service to users until it reaches a consensus with the taxi industry. The company said it would even consider scrapping the carpooling service altogether. 　“There are no conditions attached to the dialogue. … W

　South Korea’s biggest internet portal Naver said Tuesday that “feminist” was the most searched word in the company’s online Korean dictionary last year, reflecting heated debate over gender equality amid the #MeToo movement that had swept the country.　Citing data for the period between Jan. 1 and Dec. 27 last year, Naver said “feminist” ranked the highest in the number of queries on the website’s Korean dictionary. The word took second place in 2017. 　The second most searched word last year was

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jackson Square is a neighborhood in San Francisco inhabited by companies brimming with ideas of integrating designs into new technologies born in Silicon Valley. At the center of this design-centric area is Samsung Design Innovation Center, which is responsible for the designs of Samsung Electronics’ new products and services. The center was relocated from nearby Palo Alto in Silicon Valley in 1994 to Los Angeles in 2008, then back up to San Francisco in 2012. Federico Casalegno

South Korean tech giants LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. have made the list of top 2018 brands in a British consumer survey, industry sources said Tuesday.The LG organic light-emitting diode TV was named the best brand of 2018 among 170 products made by Samsung and other global TV makers, according to the survey by Which? magazine published by Britain's Consumers' Association.  (Yonhap)Samsung was named the best brand in the smartphone and tablet PC categories, outperforming arch

SILICON VALLEY, California -- Larry Heck is a renowned figure in Silicon Valley, spending 27 years working with the world’s leading tech moguls on bringing forward the era of artificial intelligence. After introducing AI services at Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, Heck joined Samsung in November 2017 to improve its fledgling AI platform Bixby, as the South Korean IT hardware manufacturer kick-started its drive for AI. “Despite the last five to seven years of progress, we are still very early in thi

Changing viewer trends, easier access boost streaming services’ presence in sports broadcasts; lack of funds, infrastructure remain major barriers