SEOUL -- Daum Communications, South Korea's second-largest Web portal operator, will join U.S. computer software giant Microsoft and local set-top box maker Celrun Co. to enter the country's ...

Daum Communications, a South Korean website firm, acquires Wired News' parent company Lycos from Spain's Terra. The sales price is less than 1 percent of what Terra paid for Lycos in 2000.

Daum, which was a dominant force in Korea’s internet market in the late 1990s, merged with Kakao in 2014. In 2023, Kakao restructured Daum as an independent in-house company, ...