SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics ranks as the most reputable technology company in the United States, a report showed Sunday, on the back of its strong products and services appealing to American consumers. Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, has topped such tech peers as Microsoft, Google and Intel in terms [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top smartphone maker, managed to stay on the top 10 list of global tech players this month in terms of market capitalization but suffered a one notch decline from end-2014 apparently due to a plunge in earnings. Samsung ranked No. 10 among other major tech [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver said Monday that its free messaging app Line will be pre-installed on Microsoft‘s soon-to-be-released Lumia 540 smartphone, reflecting its growing popularity around the globe. “The Lumia 540 will be pre-installed with the Line application, although it does not mean that all of the future [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it plans to pre-install applications and services provided by Microsoft on the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S6, as well as other Android-powered mobile devices. Under the plan, Samsung said it will “bring Microsoft mobile productivity services to more consumers and business customers” by installing [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung, which holds one of the leading smartphone makers Samsung Electronics under its wing, was declared as the second-most valuable brand in the globe, data showed Thursday. The price tag on the Samsung brand was estimated at US$81.7 billion in 2015, up 4 percent from a [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust authority said Thursday it reopened a review on the merger between Microsoft Corp. and Nokia’s devices and services business to preempt any potential market distortions and ensure fair competition. In the “consent decree process” expected to last at least three months, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Microsoft Korea rolled out its first machine-learning tool in South Korea on Wednesday as the firm moves to expand clout in advanced technology based on fast-growing cloud computing systems. Azure machine-learning, which runs on Microsoft’s namesake cloud system, is an analysis platform developed by the U.S. software giant that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reportedly known that Samsung Electronics has paid US$1.04 billion of royalties to Microsoft in exchange for using the U.S. company’s patents for making Android-based smartphones and tablets for a year. The unknown secret of how much money the Korean electronics giant is paying to the software empire was revealed [...]