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SK Telecom

2024.11.04

02:58

Asia Tech Wire (Nov 4) -- South Korea's SK Telecom on Monday announced plans to accelerate the company's artificial intelligence development by building the "AI infrastructure superhighway".

2024.08.19

06:53

SK's AI chip startup Sapeon signs merger deal with Rebellions

Asia Tech Wire (Aug 19) -- SK Telecom's artificial intelligence chip startup Sapeon Korea has signed a merger agreement with rival Rebellions.

2024.02.27

09:11

U.S. startup Humane, S. Korea's SK Telecom enter into AI partnership

Asia Tech Wire (Feb 27) -- U.S. tech startup Humane and SK Telecom, South Korea's largest mobile telecom operator, announced a collaboration in the field of AI on Tuesday.

2022.03.01

16:00

South Korea's SK Telecom shows metaverse technologies at Mobile World Congress 2022

Asian Tech Press (Mar. 1) -- SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest wireless carrier, has been demonstrating its metaverse technologies during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 in Barcelona.

2022.01.10

07:53

SK Group establishes investment fund to focus on metaverse

Asian Tech Press (Jan 10) -- SK Group's three information and communications technology (ICT) subsidiaries - SK Square, SK Telecom and SK Hynix - have set up an advisory body to strengthen their global operations. The three companies plan to set up a trillion won (about $835 million) investment fund to invest in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), metaverse and blockchain.

2022.01.06

08:56

SK plans to co-invest with Qualcomm to take the initiative in the AI chip market

Asian Tech Press (Jan 06) -- According to The Korea Herald, SK and Qualcomm will discuss joint investment in artificial intelligence (AI) chips to take the initiative in the booming, environmentally friendly and low-power AI chip market.

2021.12.06

07:54

Netflix CEO said to visit Seoul to settle dispute with SK Telecom later this month

Asian Tech Press (Dec 6) -- Co-founder and CEO of global streaming giant Netflix Reed Hastings will reportedly fly to Seoul later this month to settle a dispute with SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest wireless carrier.

2021.11.10

10:02

SK Telecom's 5G users have reached 8.65 million, Q3 net profit up 88% YoY

Asian Tech Press (Nov 10) -- South Korea's SK Telecom released its third-quarter results and showed its Q3 revenue was 4.97 trillion won (about $4.205 billion), up from 4.73 trillion won in the same period last year, up 5% year-on-year. Higher than the 4.8 trillion won in the previous quarter, up 3.1% quarter-on-quarter.

2021.08.13

08:47

South Korea's SK Telecom, Kakao to invest about $17 million to form ESG fund

SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest wireless carrier, said Thursday it will form a 20 billion won (US$17.29 million) investment fund with mobile messaging giant Kakao Corp. to nurture promising companies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) sectors.

2021.06.17

05:11

SK Telecom plans $5 billion acquisition fund to become Korea's SoftBank

South Korea's largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, has left an impression of seriousness and rigidity in the past. But the company is now taking steps to shed that image and play a more dynamic role as an investor in tech startups, much like Japan's SoftBank Group.

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