SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics began selling two models of “Samsung Smart Signage TV” for small- and mid-sized business owners enabling a variety of advertisement inside their shops. On August 11, Samsung put the 40-inch and 48-inch smart signage TVs on the market targeting small firms and self-employed business owners. As an innovative [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will implement a scheme to designate an airline by destination after a competitive bid, as a way to save travel expenses and improve the quality of service for its executives and employees traveling overseas for business purposes. On August 8, the company reportedly held on July 11 a briefing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is losing its power seller status in the lower-end smartphone market in China pushed back by local smartphone providers led by Xiaomi. According to Business Week on August 5, Xiaomi ranked first in the smartphone market in China beating Samsung by quoting a report of market research firm Canalys. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will load Joyn Blackbird service, dubbed as a “mobile carrier version of KakaoTalk,” in its smartphones for the first time in the industry. On August 4, Samsung announced that it became the first smartphone handset manufacturer by securing the service into its Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5. Joyn Blackbird [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, after announcing disappointing quarterly financial results recently due to the poor performance of its smartphone division, is trying to get out of a funk by investing intensively in B2B businesses focusing on semiconductors and displays. The company said this on July 31 in a conference call releasing [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — To a question “What is your favorite brand when you plan to buy a new smartphone?” Samsung Electronics topped the list with about 30 percent of respondents said they want to choose Samsung’s, according to a recent survey conducted by the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI). CSRI announced its survey results on July [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The record drop in the sales revenue of Samsung Electronics in the second quarter of this year — often referred to as the “earnings shock” by the media — forced tightening of its belt, starting from cutting down of its executives’ travel expenses. Samsung Electronics announced on July 18 that [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics will supply the 2014 edition of 3,000 Galaxy Note 10.1 devices preinstalled with the “Knox” mobile security platform to the Credit Finance Association of Korea. This is the first instance in which Samsung introduces Knox in Korea’s financial service industry. Knox is essential to the association’s security requirements as [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the 3.74 million property tax payers in Seoul for the first half of this year, Samsung Electronics’ headquarters in Seocho-gu was the largest tax payer with 1.7 billion won(US$1.65 million). The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on July 15 that it sent out the property tax bills amounting to 1.22 [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Upon the launch of its premium tablet PC “Galaxy Tap S,” Samsung Electronics will initiate, from July 11 to August 10, an “Ad Collage Marketing” for its new product. Collage is a term used for a technique of art production, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different [...]