SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and Google have joined forces to launch a Smart TV content application. Cooperation between the two companies seems to on solid footing after joint marketing efforts for LG’s new OLED TVs. LG Electronics announced on November 18 that it is bringing a new content application, Google Play Movies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s LG Display Co. maintained its top position in the large-sized panel market for the sixth consecutive year, data showed Tuesday, coming in far above other South Korean and Taiwanese rivals. LG shipped 39.4 million units of display panels 9 inches or higher in the July-September period with [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV has received the best response from a U.S. consumer review magazine, industry sources said Monday. In the recent review by Consumer Reports, the 55-inch LG OLED TV, dubbed the 55EG9100, has received the top grade among other rival models surveyed in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s top two tech firms, said Wednesday that they have garnered international awards for some of their latest home appliances, mobile devices and memory chips. Samsung won the Best of Innovation award for a total of 38 products, including the most [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – After the performance of LG Electronics during the second quarter was announced (200 million won in business profits), company officials anticipated that profitability would improve as the new G4 smartphone launched worldwide. However, their dreams were shattered as concerns expressed by analysts became reality. The performance of LG Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung SDI Co. and LG Chem Co., South Korea’s two major battery makers, are expanding their product portfolios into flexible cells for wearable devices, a move seen to meet increasing global demand for bendable gadgets such as smartwatches. The two battery-making units of Samsung Group and LG Group said [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) - LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday it has begun selling its latest Bluetooth-powered keyboard that works on tablet PCs with excellent power efficiency. The Rolly Keyboard, which boasts improved portability compared to other Bluetooth keyboards in the market as it can be “rolled up” on a rectangular stick, will come with a price tag of 129,000 won (US$113.10). LG said users [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Global TV shipments fell at the fastest clip insix years in the second quarter of the year, hit by the sluggish world economy and weaker currencies of emerging countries, industry data showed Sunday. Global TV sales stood at 48 million units in the April-June period, down 8percent from the same period a year earlier, according to the data by industry tracker IHS Technology. It [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier KT Corp. on Thursday unveiled what it claims is the industry’s first IPTV set top box-embedded PC allowing users to reduce space and enjoy various multimedia contents. Developed under collaboration with local tech firm LG Electronics Inc., the device allows users to switch [...]
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