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Upstage acquires Daum to build AI-driven portal in South Korea Upstage recasts Daum as an AI testbed amid Kakao tie-up and looming IPO ...

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 ...

The writer Meghan Daum has told her life story in her books. She documented her salad days of debt and dating in New York in “My Misspent Youth.” She novelized the story of an idealistic move to ...

South Korean firm Mass Studies has developed a system of five concrete modules for building South Korea's answer to California's Silicon Valley, starting with this flexible headquarters building for ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Shareholders of South Korean internet portal operator Daum Communications Corp and messaging app company Kakao Corp on Wednesday approved a merger of the two firms in an all-stock ...

Constant chatter of nebulous vibe shifts and woke/anti-woke battles has made it nearly impossible to find rational voices in the cacophonous take economy. It’s dispiriting to watch a once respected ...

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