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Has Google Overtaken Naver In South Korea?

Since roughly 2006 Naver has been the leading search site in South Korea. Consistently Google has been unable to break through and — according to various traffic estimates — has less than 5 percent of the market there. That’s as recently as Q4 of last year according to data I’ve seen. Mysteriously, however, StatCounter is […]

Greg Sterling | Feb 6, 2013 at 9:43 am ET

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Apple Maps Sees Its First International Territorial Dispute As Korea Protests Island Naming

From the it-had-to-happen-sooner-or-later department: Apple is in the midst of its first international territorial dispute over its new Apple Maps product. As the Korea Times reports (and also picked up by ZDNet), the South Korean government is upset because Apple is displaying a collection of small islands in between it and Japan with different names […]

Matt McGee | Nov 1, 2012 at 4:27 pm ET