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 ...

Upstage has begun groundwork to acquire Kakao's portal Daum. Upstage and Kakao, the parent company of AXZ, which operates Daum, said on the 29th that they each held board meetings and approved signing ...

Daum Kakao, one of the largest Internet companies in South Korea, has launched a mobile payment platform called BankWalletKakao as it addresses concerns about its ability to grow in international ...

Internet portal Daum completed its split from Kakao on Monday, becoming an independent business run by AXZ, a new subsidiary that spun off from Kakao’s in-house content company-in-company (CIC) in May ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage has moved to acquire the portal "Daum." Upstage said on the 29th that it "will apply AI technology to Daum's content data to push a transition to a ...

Kakao, the Korea-based company behind the Kakao Talk mobile messaging app, is merging with Daum, the country’s second largest internet portal. The news is surprising, since Kakao had been tipped to go ...

As global competition for AI dominance intensifies in the opening of 2026, Korea’s leading AI companies are also in motion. SK Group has decided on an astronomical investment of more than ₩100 ...