(AP)—Kakao Talk, a popular mobile messenger in South Korea, will launch an online music and electronic book shop next year as it continues to grow beyond its original mission to provide a simple ...

The most popular messaging app in South Korea is called KakaoTalk. It offers an array of free call and text messaging services. It also has the ability to share photos, videos and other information.

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 ...

Korean mobile messaging service Kakao is updating the Plus Friend advertising platform built into its Kakao Talk app with dedicated homepages and custom design tools aimed at brands and celebrities.

Forget Facebook and Twitter. Two of Asia's biggest social media players, Kakao Talk and Line, are growing by making mobile messaging apps an integral part of the lives of young Asians who prefer to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It isn’t often that a company in Asia acquires a U.S. rival, particularly one that has surfed a wave of hype in Silicon Valley. But that’s exactly what happened this week after Path announced the sale ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korean chat giant Kakao will form a blockchain subsidiary, the company has said. Han Jaesun, co-founder and CTO of local startup accelerator FuturePlay, will lead the yet-to-be-named firm as CEO ...