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 [...]