SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean prosecutors raided the offices of Samsung Group on Wednesday, a prosecution official said, after media reports of alleged links with a confidante of President Park Geun-hye who has been indicted Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – In the shadows of Samsung Electronics’ Note 7 smartphone crisis, affiliate Samsung SDI is quietly reassuring anxious clients including Apple that its batteries are safe. But potential new customers may prove harder Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy Harman International Industries in an $8 billion deal, marking a major push into the auto electronics market and the biggest overseas acquisition ever by a South Read more…
China Mobile has unlocked a couple of new achievements in its journey to 5G, including a 5G prototype trial with Samsung Electronics and a Massive MIMO installation in Shanghai with Huawei Technologies. Samsung announced it Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics said on Sunday it would launch an artificial intelligence digital assistant service for its upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, seeking to rebound from the Galaxy Note 7’s collapse and differentiate its Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it was reviewing options to limit the potential environmental impact from the firm’s discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. The remarks come after environmental group Greenpeace Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics on Thursday said it aims to recover quickly from the disastrous withdrawal of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 that dragged third-quarter mobile earnings to their lowest in nearly eight years. Read more…
Samsung’s exploding handsets aside, Ericsson’s crisis shows the need for all players to accelerate their shift towards software and services. It’s been a month of exploding smartphones and the growing fall-out from the problems with Read more…
(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics is in talks with LG Chem to supply batteries for its new smartphones, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing sources. Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone maker, scrapped production of the fire-prone Note Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore Airlines said on Saturday it has banned Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 mobile phones from all its flights and any passenger carrying one will not be allowed to board its planes. The Read more…
REUTERS – Samsung Electronics’s abandonment of the Galaxy Note 7 due to safety concerns will likely touch off a turf war among Android smartphone makers, analysts said, presenting them a rare opportunity to gain share Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics scrapped its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone on Tuesday less than two months after its launch, dealing a huge blow to its reputation and outlook after failing to resolve safety Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics told customers on Tuesday to stop using their Galaxy Note 7 smartphones while it investigates reports of fires in the devices, as the tech giant scrambled to contain a deepening Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After five years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the bitter patent dispute between the world’s two top smartphone manufacturers over the amount Samsung should Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Heated meetings, sacrificed holidays and teams monitoring social media round-the-clock to track whether there have been any new smartphone fires: Samsung Electronics is still desperately trying to limit the damage of a Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics shares jumped to a record high on Thursday after activist investor Elliott Management submitted unsolicited proposals for a radical corporate makeover at the world’s biggest smartphone maker. An attempt by Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it is acquiring US artificial intelligence (AI) platform developer Viv Labs Inc, a firm run by a co-creator of Apple’s Siri voice assistant program. Samsung Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Tech giant Samsung Electronics will be the sole contract manufacturer for Qualcomm’s next high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, South Korea’s Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources. The paper said Samsung will make Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has slammed South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics for what it said was “discrimination” against China consumers in its handling of a global recall of Galaxy Note Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Sunday it was delaying the start of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone sales in South Korea by three days to October 1, a move Read more…
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