The latest Google-HTC deal will have little impact on Samsung Electronics as the US search giant is unlikely to make a new push into the smartphone business, according to local securities companies on Friday. On Thursday, Google announced that it would acquire Taiwanese tech firm HTC’s smartphone arm, including its 2,000 employees, for $1.1 billion. This is not the first time Google has bought a handset maker. In 2011, it acquired Motorola for $12.5 billion, but sold it off to Lenovo three years

Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it released the Galaxy Note 8 phablet in Malaysia and Thailand, tapping deeper into the Southeast Asian market.The South Korean tech giant, which kicked off official sales of the phablet at home on Thursday, earlier said it plans to release the device in 150 countries around the globe through October. A screen grab of Galaxy Note 8 from Samsung's websiteThe Galaxy Note 8 boasts a 6.3-inch display, its signature S Pen stylus and a dual-lens camera setup. With t

US ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday launched its car pool service in South Korea from which it sees a "big opportunity."The uberSHARE car pool service comes after Uber launched the restaurant delivery app UberEATS last month as it seeks to diversify its business portfolio in Asia's fourth-biggest economy. The "eco-friendly and affordable" car pool service, initially available in Seoul, will help alleviate traffic congestion during commuting hours, Brooks Entwistle, chief b

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Google Korea, the local unit of US-based tech giant Google Inc., said Thursday it has launched the Korean-language edition of its voice recognition program, Google Assistant, along with the release of LG Electronics Inc.'s V30 smartphone in South Korea.Google Assistant, running on artificial intelligence technology, is anticipated to compete with Samsung Electronics Co.'s Bixby and Apple Inc.'s Siri in the domestic market.The Korean-language program is expected to be gradually applied to smartph

LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday expressed confidence in the photo-taking features of its new flagship V30 smartphone, and said it is committed to making the best camera modules for smartphones.LG Innotek Co., an electronics parts maker under LG, told reporters touring its factory that nearly two-thirds of the production procedures of its camera modules were allocated to testing performance. It stressed that such steps require the greatest attention to detail as the complexity of the cameras in t

Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it plans to release the Galaxy Note 8 in 150 countries through October, with official sales scheduled for 20 more countries later this week.The South Korean tech giant, which started sales of the new phablet in South Korea on Thursday, said it will launch the device in Australia, India, Russia and Thailand on Friday. (Yonhap)In line with efforts to promote the Galaxy Note 8 overseas, the company said it will open a Galaxy Studio in Melbourne next week where

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South Korea’s mobile carrier KT has set out to develop a new nationwide network to monitor and manage ultrafine dust levels by leveraging its existing telecommunications infrastructure and network technologies.KT said Wednesday announced the launch of the “Air Map Korea Project,” pledging to invest 10 billion won ($8.87 million) for the nationwide project.KT's telecommunications infrastructure installed across Korea (KT)The company plans to turn its network infrastructure — most of which are loc

After three-month-long negotiations, Japanese conglomerate Toshiba selected a global consortium led by US private equity group Bain Capital to sell its memory business, according to news reports on Wednesday. The consortium includes South Korean chipmaker SK hynix and tech giant Apple.For SK hynix, the world’s fifth NAND flash maker, the group’s acquisition of the Toshiba unit is expected to help raise competitiveness of the chip business. Toshiba is the second largest NAND provider in the world

DIGITAL HEALTH STARTUPS ON SHOW -- Bayer Korea and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency held Tuesday a “demo day” showcasing the finalists of their jointly-launched digital health care startup accelerator program Grants4Apps Korea. Three local startups -- rapid-cooling anesthesia device maker RecensMedical, Sky Labs, which developed a ring-type wearable that monitors and detects arrhythmia, and pet-tech company GomiLabs -- presented their products and technologies in front of investors an

A group of South Korean scientists have developed highly stable and cheap solar cells made out of flourine, a state-run institute said TuesdayThe team led by Kim Jin-young from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology developed the edged-selectively fluorine functionalized graphene nanoplatelets with structure of perovskite solar cells that can achieve a stability of 82 percent. (Yonhap)A perovskite solar cell is a type of cell which includes a perovskite structured compound, consi