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...Samsung’s big shake-upSamsung Electronics has reshuffled its management for the first time in four years as it steps up its push into non-memory chips and artificial intelligence....
...Samsung’s chips going down? Samsung reported its highest profit in three years....
...The KFTC said Amazon and Alibaba had failed to expand their mobile operating system businesses because of Google’s stance, while South Korean device makers Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics had struggled...
...Nic Fildes has interviewed Charlie Ergen, co-founder and chairman of Dish, the satellite TV provider that is expanding into 5G in the US....
...Three decades ago, dual share classes were uncommon and typically found in family-controlled companies, such as South Korea’s Samsung, which has non-voting preferred shares, Switzerland-based healthcare...
...In essence, companies exist because they can co-ordinate some human action more efficiently than decentralised markets....
...Seoul’s Kospi Composite index bucked the trend adding 0.2 per cent, however, buoyed as Samsung Electronics gained after announcing a new stock split and record quarterly earnings....
...The Kospi in South Korea edged up 0.4 per cent, shaking off a 0.6 per cent fall for Samsung Electronics....
...In Korea, the Kospi rose 0.4 per cent while Samsung Electronics fell as much as 2 per cent as the company missed profit estimates for the fourth quarter....
...The Kospi Composite in South Korea edged up 0.3 per cent, shaking off a 0.6 per cent fall for Samsung Electronics. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 was 0.2 per cent lower as financials fell 0.6 per cent....
...low as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell 2.3 per cent and 4.7 per cent respectively....
...The tech segment was also weak, with South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Hong Kong-listed Chinese tech giant Tencent down 1.9 per cent and 2.3 per cent, respectively....
...Samsung Electronics was 4.3 per cent higher as analysts forecast the company will report record profits in its memory chips segment for the three months to the end of September....
...The South Korean electronics group’s last big phone launch, the Galaxy Note 7, cost the company more than $5.3bn in losses after a worldwide recall sparked by exploding batteries....
...The US Department of Justice has weighed in on the patent battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics, recommending the Supreme Court send the case back to lower courts to reassess the appropriate amount...
...The decision by the top court also gives renewed hope to Samsung as the South Korean electronic group seeks to reduce the damages of $548m it agreed to pay Apple after losing a series of appeals in patent...
...Fitbit launched a new fitness-focused smartwatch at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday, as looks to stave off growing competition to its early lead in wearable technology from beyond Silicon Valley...
...The South Korean electronics company is making a last-ditch effort to overturn a ruling that it says applies patent law too broadly and could impede competition in the technology market by awarding “excessive...
...The Korean electronics company is making a last-ditch effort to overturn a ruling that it says applies patent law too broadly and could impede competition in the technology market by awarding “excessive”...
...However, one omission from the OnePlus 2 is NFC, the wireless technology that allows for contactless payments and other short-range data transfers....
...From 1996 to last year its annual revenue grew at an average rate of 13.6 per cent — outstripping even Samsung Electronics, which over that same period became the world’s biggest technology company by sales...
...There is a very similar DNA there,” said Mike McCue, Flipboard’s co-founder and chief executive....
...The valuation would make Snapchat, which launched three and a half years ago, one of the highest valued technology start-ups, after companies such as Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi and Uber, worth $40bn...
...Conversely, companies such as Looxcie and V.I.O. are offering wearable video cameras designed to capture real-time point-of-view video clips....
...The technology companies are the new entrants with the muscle, money and easy distribution....
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