NAVER Corporation (035420.KS)
| Previous close | 322,500.00 |
| Open | 332,000.00 |
| Bid | 0.00 x 0 |
| Ask | 0.00 x 0 |
| Day's range | 326,000.00 - 350,000.00 |
| 52-week range | 135,000.00 - 350,000.00 |
| Volume | 3,303,714 |
| Avg. volume | 991,305 |
| Market cap | 50.652T |
| Beta (5Y monthly) | 0.75 |
| PE ratio (TTM) | N/A |
| EPS (TTM) | N/A |
| Earnings date | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Forward dividend & yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-dividend date | 27 Dec 2019 |
| 1y target est | 155,296.00 |
- TechCrunch
Wattpad, the storytelling platform, is selling to South Korea's Naver for $600 million
Wattpad, the 14-year-old, Toronto-based, venture-backed storytelling platform with reach into a number of verticals, is being acquired by Naver, the South Korean conglomerate, in a $600 million cash-and-stock deal. Naver plans to incorporate at least part of the business into another of its holdings, the publishing platform Webtoon, which Naver launched in 2004, brought to the U.S. in 2014, and that features thousands of comic strips created by its users. According to Naver, Webtoon was averaging more than 67 million monthly users as of last August.
- TechCrunch
Do Ventures launches $50 million fund for Vietnamese startups, backed by Naver, Vertex and other notable LPs
New investment firm Do Ventures announced today the first closing of its fund for Vietnamese startups, which is backed by several of Asia’s most notable institutional investors. Called Do Ventures Fund I, the investment vehicle has hit more than half of its $50 million target, with limited partners including Korean internet giant Naver; Sea, whose businesses include Garena and Shopee; Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Holdings; and Korean app developer Woowa Brothers. Do Ventures was founded by general partners Nguyen Manh Dung, former CEO of CyberAgent Ventures Vietnam and Thailand, and Vy Hoang Uyen Le, previously a general partner at ESP Capital.
