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  Kakao Entertainment, the South Korean tech giant that owns mobile comics portal Tapas is shutting the Korean office of Tapas Entertainment down, Tech Crunch is reporting.  In addition, The Beat has learned that the US office of Tapas had a round of layoffs last month, with cuts to several departments there and at Radish, another division of Kakao’s US content arm. VP of Content Michael Son and several other editorial personnel remain at the company.  All these moves are seen as part of consolidating Kakao’s content…

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday instructed officials to make efforts to ensure Kakao and Naver can quickly resume their services disrupted by a fire in their data centres.He also called on the companies to find out the exact cause of the fire and come up with measures to avoid future disruptions of services.His comments came a day after the fire broke out at the building of SK C&C, located in Pangyo, just south of Seoul. The building houses the data centres of Naver and Kakao.Although the fire has been…

SEOUL— Kakao Corp. 035720 -5.93% , South Korea’s so-called everything app, dropped out of service over the weekend, spurring widespread disruption in life and business that exposed the vulnerabilities created should an ubiquitous tech giant be forced offline.Kakao’s main services—messaging to ride hailing to mobile payments—suffered outages on Saturday, following a fire at a facility housing a large proportion of the company’s data servers. Not all of the company’s…

KakaoTalk and other services of Kakao Corp. faced a major outage after a fire broke out at a data center in the outskirts of the country's capital, Seoul (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of South Korea's top messaging app plunged Monday after a major data center outage over the weekend disrupted service for more than 53 million users worldwide.The outage was triggered by a fire at the data center, which also hosts servers for…

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Kakao says it will remove an external payment link from its KakaoTalk messaging app on Play Store, after Google blocked it from issuing updates on July 6 — South Korean messaging giant Kakao confirmed today it will remove an external payment option after Google blocked the South Korean company behind KakaoTalk from issuing updates. Kate Park / TechCrunch: Kakao says it will remove an external payment link from its KakaoTalk messaging app on Play Store, after Google blocked…

The latest software update for KakaoTalk, South Korea's most popular mobile messaging app, remained suspended for a week on the Google Play Store on Thursday, following the refusal by tech giant Kakao to comply with Google's new in-app payment policy.Google turned down Kakao's submission application for the latest 9.8.6 version of KakaoTalk for Android on Google Play on June 30, citing Kakao's non-compliance with the policy, according to Kakao. Google's decision is in line with its new payment policy announced in April,…

| Change is coming for Tapas, the digital platform for webcomics and digital prose, and radish, the digital prose serial platform. Kakao Entertainment, Korea's leading provider of popular mobile content platforms, merged its North America subsidiaries Tapas Media and Radish Media, creating a single digital publishing platform with more than 100,000 creators telling more than 100,000 stories. Tapas is the unique platform that publishes both digital comics and serialized novels. The merger of these leading digital…