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 [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced new cutting-edge mobile component solutions that advance users’ mobile experiences. These solutions include an 8-megapixel (MP) RWB (Red-White-Blue) image sensor based on ISOCELL technology and an NFC (Near Field Communication) integrated circuit (IC) with [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. on Sunday (Spain time) showed off its new Galaxy smartphones that have the industry’s first wireless-charging batteries and a mobile payment system with wider access, key new features that the tech firm hopes will set the handsets apart from its neck-and-neck rivals when they [...]
Seoul, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group will develop about 400 ‘smart factories’ in Gyeongsangbuk-do in collaboration with the Gyeongbuk Creative Economy Center, by 2017. The partners will jointly develop fully automated assembly factories based on MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and IoT (Internet Of Things) technologies. These factories will be also equipped with tailored [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top tech firm Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has decided to freeze pay for its employees for 2015, as the world’s No.1 handset maker struggles to bounce back from a slump in its mainstay mobile business that ate into overall profits. A Samsung official earlier told [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co. and leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday they will jointly promote the fifth-generation (5G) network that runs on high-frequency bands at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which kicks off in Spain next month. Samsung and SK Telecom will showcase [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung’s SUHD TV has caught cinemagoers’ attention with a pre-show advertisement that instantly follows a theatrical teaser trailer, with direct references to the movie clip. The pre-show commercial starts with the line, ‘What would it be like to see this movie on Samsung’s SUHD TV?’ and continues with the main [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group, South Korea’s top conglomerate, said Thursday it will invest 90 billion won (US$81.3 million) to build a center at the conglomerate’s birth city that assists local startups. The group, which holds the world’s top smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co. under its wing, said it will build the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics and Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday they have decided to end their yearslong patent fee dispute but declined to provide details on the conditions of the agreement. “Samsung and Microsoft are pleased to announce that they have ended their contract dispute in U.S. court, as well as the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chip giant SK hynix Inc. said Monday it has started supplying its up-to-date memory chip for LG Electronics Inc.’s new flagship smartphone lineup, in its latest push to grab a bigger market share with the new mobile component as it vies against home rival Samsung Electronics [...]