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SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major electronics firms — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. — were among the top five players in the European smart home market in the fourth quarter of last year, a report showed Tuesday, as they push to increase connected devices amid the pandemic-induced stay-at-home [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, is likely to accelerate its investment in the United States as U.S. President Joe Biden urged more spending in the chipmaking sector to resolve the chip shortage and build up a stable supply chain, analysts here said Tuesday. Samsung was [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the status as the world’s second-largest semiconductor vendor by revenue last year, industry data showed Tuesday, amid rising demand of memory products on the back of the pandemic-induced stay-at-home economy. Samsung’s chip business logged US$57.7 billion in revenue last year, up 10.2 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The right to name the country’s first trade of Bitcoin and Ethereum has been made into a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and put up for auction. Korbit, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, produced two pieces of cryptoart with an NFT artist Nonamed and put them up on Foundation, an NFT [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG CNS Co., an IT service arm of South Korea’s LG Group, said Monday its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered English education service has been launched in Japan as the company eyes to expand its overseas presence with its latest AI solutions. AI Speak Tutor, LG CNS’ AI-based learning app, was [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it launched its augmented reality (AR) app in the United States as it seeks widespread adoption of the immersive technology. The mobile carrier said it released its Jump AR app, previously only available in South Korea and Hong Kong, [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. had started running Galaxy Fan Classes that provide a variety of educational and experience programs, including how to use the latest Galaxy smartphones, at its Digital Plaza stores nationwide. The classes are designed to evolve the Digital Plaza from a simple shopping space into a space [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean wireless carriers are estimated to have logged robust earnings in the first quarter on the back of sharp growth in 5G users and their non-telecom businesses, a poll showed Sunday. The combined operating profits of the country’s three major mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, has no plan to retrieve its investment in Japanese semiconductor firm Kioxia Holdings Corp., its CEO said Friday, amid growing speculation over consolidation in the NAND industry. In 2017, SK hynix joined a global consortium to invest in Kioxia, then known [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday unveiled its upgraded smart tracking tag leveraging advanced wireless communication technologies that can locate people’s lost items with better accuracy. The Galaxy SmartTag+ uses both Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) solutions, according to Samsung. The latest product will be available beginning next [...]