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Smartphone woes drag Samsung Electronics third-quarter profit to more than three-year low

October 30th, 2014 (0)
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) on Thursday said it would revamp its smartphone line-up to take on competitors in the rapidly growing mid-to-low range segment, after third-quarter earnings set it on course for its worst year since 2011. The ...

Samsung Electronics heads for annual profit drop

October 7th, 2014 (0)
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is heading for its first annual earnings drop since 2011 after it revealed its July-September profit would be the lowest in more than three years and said short-term prospects for smartphones were uncertain. The ...

Microsoft sues Samsung over unpaid interest

October 6th, 2014 (0)
Microsoft is suing Samsung for $6.9m (£4.33m) in unpaid interest, an unsealed lawsuit has revealed. In August Microsoft announced it was suing the South Korean firm in a dispute over unpaid interest on Android patent royalties. The lawsuit, now ...

Samsung’s profit hit bottom in third quarter ahead of slow recovery

October 2nd, 2014 (0)
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s (005930.KS) profit is seen weakening further in the third-quarter, underscoring the downturn in its market-leading smartphone business and piling pressure on the firm to deliver a revamped product lineup. According to analysts, the world’s largest ...

EU regulators fine Infineon, Samsung, Philips 138 million euros

September 3rd, 2014 (0)
European Union antitrust regulators fined Philips, Samsung Electronics and Infineon Technologies a total of 138 million euros ($181.28 million) on Wednesday for fixing prices of chips used in mobile SIM cards. The European Commission, which raided the companies in ...

Apple loses bid to block sales of 9 Samsung phones

August 28th, 2014 (0)
A federal judge has rejected Apple’s attempt to block the sale of several older Samsung smartphones that copied features in the iPhone. Wednesday’s rebuff comes nearly four months after a jury awarded Apple Inc. $119 million in damages for ...

Samsung Told by Tax Man to Use Apple-Topping Cash: Korea Markets

August 21st, 2014 (0)
Samsung Electronics Co. is sitting on a cash pile 58% bigger than Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s war chest. The tax man has a message for South Korea’s biggest company: “Use it or lose it.” The government of President Park Geun ...

Samsung’s next reinvention challenge is ‘reinvent itself’ & to be more innovative

August 7th, 2014 (0)
As its smartphone sales stutter and a generational leadership succession looms, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is under pressure to reinvent itself – to be more innovative, but not lose the rigor and focus that made it a global powerhouse. ...

Apple, Samsung Agree to End Patent Suits Outside U.S.

August 6th, 2014 (0)
Apple and Samsung Electronics are starting to wind down their global patent battle. The companies said in a joint statement today that they have agreed to drop all suits against each other in countries outside the U.S. Claims are ...

Samsung Electronics China supplier to resume business after child labor allegations

August 5th, 2014 (0)
A Chinese subsidiary of Shinyang Engineering Co Ltd (086830.KQ) will resume supplying parts to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Tuesday, a Shinyang official said, less than a month after business ties were suspended over child labor allegations. In July, ...
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