Different messaging apps are popular in different parts of the world, and in South Korea, KakaoTalk rules the market. Now, KakaoTalk is finally delivering a smartwatch experience on Wear OS, and it’s ...

While Koreans turned to KakaoTalk most often to connect, they spent the most time watching videos on YouTube this year, ...

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The Google Play Store has been cracking down on its billing policies over the past couple of years, and some major apps have complied with the new rules. In South Korea, though, Google had resorted to ...

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 ...

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A survey revealed that the average monthly usage time per user of the KakaoTalk app decreased after the revamp of its first screen, the ‘Friends’ tab, in a manner similar to Instagram. Earlier, Kakao ...

South Korea's in-app payment law, better known as the "anti-Google law," permits Android app developers to add third-party payment options in their app, but only if they offer them alongside Google's ...

Google has stopped providing updates to popular messaging app KakaoTalk in South Korea, according to a local report, after Kakao continued using an external payment link in its Android app, against ...

As per a local report, the company decided to do this when Kakao "continued using an external payment link in its Android app." Using an external payment link is against the new in-app payments policy ...

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