SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., a South Korean tech giant, said Tuesday it has joined an international blood donation campaign to encourage more people to give blood for those in desperate need. The Red Cross’s International Missing Type (IMT) initiative encourages popular brands and organizations to remove A, B and O [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday said it will showcase its new high-end smartwatch, the Gear S3, in Germany later this month. The showcase event will take place on Aug. 31 in Berlin, just ahead of the Internal Funkausstellung (IFA) tech fair, and will be streamed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Iris scanning is no longer something from the future, or a mundane cliché technology from a sci-fi movie. With Samsung Electronics introducing a form of the technology in its latest flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 7, it’s clear that a new era of personal identification is here. Boasting its [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said it has signed a contract to acquire a U.S. premium kitchen appliance maker, Dacor, in a move to bolster Samsung’s presence in the American luxury home-appliance market. The financial terms of the contract were not revealed, but Yoon Boo-keun, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Galaxy Note 7, a phablet made by Samsung Electronics Co., has received more preorders in South Korea than expected, driven by its advanced features and aggressive promotions, industry sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, the preorders for the phablet on Aug. 7-8 exceeded 200,000. Preorders will be [...]
New York, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 7, on Tuesday in New York. The new Galaxy Note comes in four colors (Coral Blue, Gold, Silver, and Black) and features a 5.7-inch display, 3,500 mAh battery, a USB-C charger port, and a long-anticipated iris scanner for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, has unveiled the official application of the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics with the start of the quadrennial premier sports event just days away, industry sources said Wednesday. Samsung, also the Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Wireless Communications Equipment category at [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, South Korea’s two top tech firms competing in the global market, will have to wait until next quarter to see who the winner is in the home appliances sector after their latest operating profit rates showed a tie, industry watchers said Friday. Samsung announced [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. reported its biggest quarterly operating profit in more than two years Thursday, boosted by robust sales of its latest premium smartphone and cost-cutting efforts. The world’s largest maker of smartphones and semiconductors earned 8.14 trillion won (US$7.19 billion) in the April-June period, up 18.06 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. raised its share of the U.S. home-appliance market for the second quarter of this year, widening its lead over competitors, according to a market estimate on Wednesday. Samsung accounted for 16.7 percent of the U.S. market for five major household appliances — refrigerators, washing machines, ovens, [...]