SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung has temporarily halted the production of its latest phablet amidst media reports of Galaxy Note 7 devices catching fire despite having been replaced, leaving consumers wondering if the flaw is in the phone itself instead of the battery. Following reports of Note 7s catching fire soon after the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Owners of Samsung smartphones are still anxious despite the company’s quick recall measures as two additional phablets were found to have caught on fire. One of the incidents took place in Korea on October 1 at a home in Seoul, the same day that Samsung resumed sales of its [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced Thursday that it will start to offer its flagship Galaxy Note 7 in a new color, Black Onyx, on Friday. The smartphone giant resumed sales of the Galaxy Note 7 on October 1 following weeks of controversy resulting from some of its phablets catching fire. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will “carefully consider” a proposal by U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management that urged the South Korean tech giant to split into two companies to increase the value of shareholders. Elliott, which fought in 2015 against a merger of two Samsung affiliates but lost, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 25 percent of Galaxy Note 7 owners in South Korea have swapped their used phablets for new ones three days after Samsung Electronics Co. began a replacement program as part of a global recall over possible battery problems, industry officials said Thursday. The number of Note 7 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. came closer to catching up with its U.S. archrival Intel Corp. in the global chip market in the second quarter, data showed Monday. Samsung Electronics saw its chip sales reach US$9.45 billion in the April-June period to account for 11.3 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it has decided to launch media advertisements to apologize for the ongoing global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it will soon run an advertisement in major media outlets to offer an apology for causing discomfort [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its vice chairman, Lee Jae-yong, was nominated to be a member of its board of directors, a move that will allow him to take a “more active role” in the decision-making process. The nomination of Lee, the only son of ailing Samsung Electronics Chairman [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Three days after Samsung advised its customers to stop using their Galaxy Note 7s and exchange them for temporary Samsung smartphones until the issues with the Note 7 are addressed, not many were found to have followed the guidelines. The Korean tech giant posted an online notice to its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The mass recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones over a battery problem has not largely affected foreign consumer loyalty to Samsung Electronics Co.’s brand, separate online surveys by Internet news websites showed Monday. According to an online survey of 11,621 Internet users by a U.S. technology news website, [...]