Kakao, the developer of mobile messenger app “Kakao Talk,” said Sunday that its now 70 million users spend almost triple the time using the app on average as they did five months ago. The average ...

There’s something about messaging in Asia. Today, Korean mobile messaging service Kakao Talk announced it has passed 100 million registered, becoming the latest messenger in the region to pass the ...

Last week I looked at the business model behind mobile messaging stickers — that’s right, those larger-than life emoticons actually help some companies make millions of dollars — and gaming is another ...

Daum Kakao, the $7 billion Internet company that owns messaging app Kakao Talk and recently bought Path, has turned to youth after hiring a new CEO to push its business forward and grow overseas. The ...

King has taken its hugely popular Candy Crush Saga to the Kakao Talk mobile messaging platform in South Korea. The move is significant because Kakao Talk, a mobile messaging platform that has replaced ...

WhatsApp may be the messaging app of the moment following Facebook's surprise $19 billion purchase, but it's not the only massively popular platform in the space. One of them is Kakao Talk, the top ...

Daum Kakao, the newly merged Korean entity behind Kakao Talk, has introduced a new end-to-end encryption feature on the chat app following controversy around user data in recent months. The company is ...

Chatting on Kakao Talk will become more secure with a new hidden chat feature that has end-to-end encryption for all messages. Secret Chat is a chat room that requires messages to be read with a ...

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A Korean company that once topped the worldwide mobile-game market is back on a trajectory for global success after years of ignoring foreign markets. Devsisters, a Korean game studio, recently ...

Kakao, the maker of free mobile instant messaging service KakaoTalk, has announced that it will merge with South Korea's second largest Internet portal Daum. On Monday, May 26, the companies announced ...