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Google has innovated online geospatial service as like Google Maps with high quality satellite images, street view, oceanic exploration and Google Earth with 3D images and SketchUP in global scale. They were brilliant ideas and many people were impressed.
But, recently Korean web service made another remarkable map services in local scale. Daum and Naver invested [...]

There was big news of partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft. After the war of acquisition between Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer, Yahoo got new woman CEO Carol Bartz and she finished remained problems that everyone minds.

Most of news media wrote Yahoo! surrendered to Microsoft and Yahoo’s stock was down. In addtion Jason Calacanis wrote [...]

I discovered very insightful experienced detection method for dying company via (http://www.infuture.kr/393 -Korean). It may be only Korean company, but I guess most of companies can be applied.

Another process is made for a process. (There is not to do any more.)
Only CEO is speaking on senior meeting. (CEO blames someone to talk.)
No one thinks about [...]

I’m also heavy RSS reader with over 200 feeds and it’s hard to track many famous blogs. Strangely I found sometimes that good blogs were hidden with no influence and rare good qualified posting. So I added them and instead removed newspaper-like blogs that publish many articles per day to keep proper numbers RSS feeds [...]

People said Korea is a grave of famous global companies such as Wal-mart, Nokia Carrefour, Nestlé,and Google. MySpace also quits their business in here.
Youtube is not exception. It was opened in one year ago with promotion of Steve Chen, co-founder of Youtube, visited Korea. During one year, Youtube seems nice growth but, it still struggles [...]

NHN announced earning surprise of 2008 year with increasing over 30% sales and income compared with 2007. According to corporate earning presentation, the total sales in 2008 reached 8.6 hundred million US dollars and net income did 2.6 hundred million US dollars. It was just discounted because of weaken Korean won.

2008
2007
Amount Increased
Rate(%)

Sales
1,208,126,638
920,208,853
287,917,785
31.29

Operating Income
491,174,801
389,491,413
101,683,388
26.11

Net profit [...]

Myspace Korean version officially will be closed in Feb. 18th. According to news media, Korean branch was managed by Fox Interactive, but it will be shut down in Korea too.

Myspace was launched Korean version in very enthusiastically in Apr. 15th, 2008. Chris DeWolfe, Myspace CEO who was visiting Korea, delivered a keynote at several [...]

I read US Republicans who are vying to lead the national party offered a mix of reactions Saturday to the decision by one candidate for the job to mail a holiday music CD including the song “Barack the Magic Negro.”
It seems that someone don’t want to accept this fact even though Mr. Obama had the [...]