Korea police raided Google Korea and Ad Mob’s head office in Seoul on suspicion of illegal private data collection for mobile advertising platform usage.
The cyber crime unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency searched …

Last week was extremely busy for Korea portal players. Amid the fast-changing smartphone era, the portals together issued a unified statement towards Google. The large No. 2 and No. 3 portals were also drawing attention …

Google Korea announced today the top 10 news items and keywords in the mobile industry.
The results came from Google’s monthly survey and ranking of mobile-related search and Twitter with 284 respondents, the company said. …

KT, the exclusive Apple iPhone distributor in Korea, said Thursday it will begin to receive limited-units for pre-sale orders of the Google-designed Android phone, Nexus One. After the online pre-sale of 4,000 units, KT will …

For the first time, Korean search engine, Naver, offered by NHN, is being pre-loaded on an Android-based smartphone.
Although Naver is a leading search engine on the web, NHN has felt threatened from Google in conjunction …

To seize the location-based service (LBS) market, which is drawing attention as a killer application of the mobile Internet era, mobile phone makers and Internet companies are busy riding on the name of the LBS …

Google will soon stop offering games for its Android operating system in South Korea, in response to an order from local authorities to stop distribution of unregulated content, the company’s Seoul office said.
The decision to …

Two South Korean handset makers — Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics — said that their March handset sales fell sharply in the country due to decreased demand.
Samsung, the world’s second-largest handset maker, posted 825,000 domestic …

China has introduced a swathe of new limits on media coverage of the world’s largest search engine run by Google Inc., according to a U.S.-based research network at the University of California, Berkeley on Friday.
Google …

Google, the operator of the world’s largest search engine, has withdrawn its China-based operations and has begun redirecting visitors to Hong Kong, according to the search engine’s Web site early Tuesday.
Users who type in www.google.com.cn …