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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