SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A video clip featuring attempts to damage Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge with a knife and hammer is drawing a lot of attention on YouTube. The clip was uploaded on the TechRax channel, which specializes in testing the durability of the latest smartphones. The clip first shows human hands hitting [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have been enticing Korean customers to get rid of their old phones, the number of subscribers changing carriers was 63 percent higher than usual last weekend. According to mobile industry sources, the number of subscriber switches for the major carriers on April [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge is expected to be scarce in the Korean market after its release on April 10, as Samsung is having a hard time meeting demand for the device due to technical difficulties related to the curved screen and an unexpectedly large number of pre-orders. According to industry [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s tech powerhouse, on Friday started shipment of its much-awaited high-end smartphones — Galaxy S6 and its offbeat sister Galaxy S6 Edge — in 20 countries, on the hope that brisk sales will help revitalize its ailing mobile business and take on Apple Inc.’s iPhone [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has beaten its archrival U.S. Apple Inc. in customer loyalty, an online poll showed Wednesday. Samsung ranked first with 35 points, outpacing Apple’s 7, according to an online poll by U.S. corporate research site SurveyMonkey, based on the responses from 5,000 consumers [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a hundred executives at Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, left their posts between late last year and the first quarter of 2015, data showed Thursday, in what seems to be an aftereffect of the lackluster performance in 2014 smartphone sales. The number of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. announced Tuesday they have agreed to halt ongoing legal disputes, ending a years-long court battle over alleged technology theft and vandalism. “(Samsung and LG) agreed to end all ongoing disputes to end tension,” the two companies said in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, is bolstering the global sales of low-end handsets to maintain its leading market presence, with the latest release of its high-end Galaxy S6 series, industry sources said Thursday. The South Korean tech giant has recently decided to roll out the new [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group’s pharmaceutical subsidiary Samsung Bioepis will be the third Korean company to manufacture and distribute biosimilar products. The company confirmed that its ‘SB4′ Enbrel biosimilar drug has advanced into regulatory review for manufacturing and marketing by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), according to an announcement on March [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung is sponsoring another round of Crufts in 2015, continuing its long-running sponsorship of the world’s largest dog show, an affiliation that started in 1993. According to an announcement from Samsung Electronics on March 5, Samsung will also exhibit a cutting-edge intelligent dog house, entitled ‘Samsung Dream Doghouse,’ during [...]