Samsung is a South Korean company that comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand. It is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate). Since the 1990s Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities, and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income. The most notable Samsung industrial subsidiary is Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value. Samsung has been able to achieve the largest market share of nearly 31% in the global smartphone segment, as of 2013. Samsung’s affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports.
U.K.-based research firm Strategy Analytics figures that Samsung took 71 percent of the smartwatch market in the first quarter of 2014, with an estimated 500,000 smartwatches sold. Android Beat noted the… Read more »
Multiple sources showed off two variants of the Galaxy S5 over the weekend: The Active and the Prime. The latter seems more interesting due to an expected 2K resolution display and… Read more »
Samsung, Google and Apple have already begun collecting patents for inventions related to the atom-thick material. It could make or break the next generation of mobile devices. Read more »
One of the best features on the $279 HP Chromebook 11 won’t be on its successor. Goodbye great IPS panel and hello lower quality screen with poor viewing angles. The upcoming… Read more »
Samsung promised improved performance in the Chromebook 2 and it’s there, based on the first review. It’s not, however, comparable to performance from less expensive Chromebooks that run on Intel chips. Read more »
If you needed another example of a smartphone sales slowdown at the high-end of the market, Samsung provided it on Thursday. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung co-CEO JK Shin… Read more »
After debuting the Galaxy Gear smartwatch with Android, Samsung is likely changing the software to Tizen, just like its Gear 2 watch. That’s good for developers and for device owners. Read more »
Although the full HD Samsung Chromebook 2 was delayed until later this month, the first hands-on thoughts of the device are appearing on Computerworld. We discuss that and other Chrome news… Read more »