Samsung

Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It is the largest South Korean chaebol. Key subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries, Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T.

Apple infringes Samsung patent on older iPhones and iPads, says US agency

5 Jun 2013

A US trade body found the Silicon Valley giant had infringed on a patent owned by the South Korean company and slapped a ban on the sale of certain older iPhone and iPad models sold by AT&T

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Apple’s cash plan takes heat off Cook, buys time

24 Apr 2013

Tim Cook wants investors to “think different” about Apple: less as a hyper-growth startup-like company and more as a mature but robust technology corporation with the world’s most lucrative...

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Samsung trumps Apple's 50m-yuan donation for quake relief

23 Apr 2013

United States technology giant Apple pledged yesterday to donate 50 million yuan (HK$62 million) and free electronics to the earthquake disaster zone in Sichuan, after it recently found itself the...

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Samsung gadgets get bigger and better with launch of S4 and Note 8.0

19 Apr 2013

Samsung officially launched its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, and its latest tablet computer, the Galaxy Note 8.0 LTE, in Hong Kong yesterday.

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Lenovo picks new targets in Samsung, Apple

16 Apr 2013

After years of nonstop talk about making Lenovo the world's largest PC brand, CEO Yang Yuanqing is readjusting his sights these days onto competing with global smartphone and tablet PC leaders...

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Samsung's Galaxy S4 set to launch in Hong Kong

4 Apr 2013

The Galaxy S4, which debuted in New York City about three weeks ago, will be introduced to the local market at a Samsung-hosted media event on April 18 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Lenovo, NEC ties grow with smartphone talks

Just a year after re-entering China's mobile market, faded Japanese electronics giant NEC is in rumored talks to sell its mobile phone business to Chinese computer giant Lenovo.

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New smartphone platforms eye inroads in hot market

A handful of new smartphone platforms are expected to become available this year, challenging the stranglehold of the two market leaders, Google's Android and Apple's iOS.

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Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone will boost freight sales for Korean Air

Samsung may ship about 44 million of the smartphones in the second and third quarters, according to Young Park, an analyst at Woori Investment & Securities in Seoul. A Boeing 747-8 freighter...

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TECHNOLOGY

Samsung sets sights on August release for new high-end Tizen smartphone

Samsung, the biggest seller of devices using the Android operating system, plans to release a smartphone powered by the open-source platform Tizen as soon as August.

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Talking points

Asia's most prestigious literary prize is presented at a glittering ceremony in Hong Kong, as its principal sponsor prepares to bow out. Among the top contenders for the Man Asia Literary Prize...

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Samsung takes fight against Apple to New York with S4 launch

Samsung is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's loyalists in the United States, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple's flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event...

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