Naver Corporation

South Korean company

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September 15 2024 Naver mobile map application began providing real-time natural disaster information service.
April 2024 Knowledge iN service was reorganized to allow continuous answer registration, remove question closure restrictions, and enable users to support preferred answers regardless of their participation status.
January 2024 Naver Cafe begins tracking Monthly Active Users (MAU), reporting an average of 30 million users from January to August, which represents a 10% increase from the previous year.
2023 The news evaluation committee was indefinitely shut down following allegations of biased auditing practices.
2023 Naver Blog gained 1.26 million new users.
October 2023 Naver announced the beta release of its AI chatbot service, 'CLOVA X'.
May 24 2021 Naver re-launched the 'Today's Diary Challenge' event, allowing only previous participants who completed the initial three-day record to participate.
May 13 2021 Naver announced a new policy to display profile pictures alongside comments on news articles to improve user identification and address malicious commenting issues.
May 1 2021 Naver initiated a blog posting event offering up to 16,000 won to daily bloggers, which was prematurely terminated due to multiple ID incidents.
February 25 2021 Naver abolished Real-time Search Terms (급상승 검색어) following criticism about potential manipulation of public opinion.
2020 Image translation function was introduced, enabling direct translation of text in photos.
2019 Naver reorganized its mobile main screen, removing search windows and some menus, which prompted over 3,000 user comments in opposition.
November 2019 Papago was modified to be available without Internet service, expanding its accessibility.
July 2017 Naver launched Papago, an AI-based mobile translator using N2MT (Naver Neural Machine Translation) technology, capable of translating text and phrases in 15 different languages by analyzing context.
2015 Naver News co-founded a committee with Daum News to evaluate and audit news press sources for their news aggregation platform.
June 2015 Naver launched Naver Pay, its mobile payment service that enables online checkout and mobile payments, becoming its second mobile payment service after Line Pay.
February 2011 Naver launched the messaging app Line for the South Korean market.

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