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Top 10 Black Friday Websites...last of course. Hot deals include a Palm Pre for $79.99 plus a two-year contract, Samsung 46-inch LCE HDTV for $999.99 and a Hewlett-Packard 15.6-inch laptop with an Intel Celeron processor for $197 (in store only). Apple: No one has... In this article: Black Friday, Twitter, Best Buy, Apple, Facebook, Corel, Dell, WordPerfect, and CorelDRAW |
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Yahoo! News | 3 days ago
KT to Sell IPhone in South Korea (PC World)
...in the country, which required clearance over user privacy concerns. The iPhone will compete in a handset market dominated by local vendors like Samsung and LG Electronics. The hugely popular iPhone is now available in over 80 countries,...
In this article: Iphone, Apple, South Korea, LG Electronics, China Unicom, SK Telecom, Yahoo, and Samsung
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CNET News.com | November 04, 2009
Apple, RIM grab market share from Nokia
...released Monday from In-Stat. The report "Wi-Fi in Mobile Phones: Dual Mode Becomes the In Thing" tracked the major Wi-Fi phone vendors, including Nokia, Apple, Research In Motion, HTC, and Samsung. Among those, Apple has enjoyed the...
In this article: Apple, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Research In Motion, CNET, Iphone, BlackBerry, and Twitter
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Technology news - CNNMoney.com | 7 days ago
The iPhone is headed to Seoul
...I'd suggest a simple solution would be stop reading Apple blogs. You might find that Nokia, RIMM, Motorola and Samsung updates are reported on blogs about those platforms. Posted By Andrew Cameron, London UK: November 18, 2009 8:37 AM
In this article: Apple, Iphone, Cnnmoney.com, Samsung, South Korea, Seoul, SK Telecom, RIMM, Motorola, and Nokia
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OSNews | November 10, 2009
*Is There Room for a New Mobile OS?*
...to anyone else, they still have a huge potential market for their own OS. Now, in smartphones, Samsung trails Nokia, RIM, Apple, and HTC, with only 4.3% share. But that's still 1,589,000 units in one quarter. Let's compare that to the...
In this article: Samsung, Apple, Iphone, TweetDeck, Cloud computing, HTC, Timex, and App Store
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MobileBurn | November 12, 2009
Gartner: Global mobile phone sales stay flat while smartphone sales grow 12.8 percent
...also increased its share, growing to 17.1 percent of the smartphone market. HTC and Samsung claimed 6.5 percent and 3.2 percent of the market respectively. The research firm expects fourth quarter sales to grow year-over-year because of...
In this article: Gartner, Samsung, Nokia, HTC, Research In Motion, Sony Ericsson, Apple, and Motorola
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FT.com - Companies | November 17, 2009
Sony retunes $5bn ad budget
...company said. The company fears it is being outgunned by competitors that spend heavily to promote specific products or categories, such as Apple with the iPod or iPhone, Samsung in televisions, or Canon in digital cameras. As a result,...
In this article: Sony, Outsourcing, Blu-Ray, Iphone, Samsung, Apple, Competitive advantage, Revenue, and Nintendo
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Sunday Mirror | November 11, 2009
Samsung set to ditch Symbian for bada OS in 2010
...Samsung still makes a serious amount of phones. Samsung shipped 200 million phones in 2009 and Lee predicts bada and Android handsets will increase that number by 10 to 20% in 2010. If you're confused about what Samsung bada is all...
In this article: Samsung, Symbian Foundation, Android, Windows Mobile, Apple, and Nokia
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washingtonpost.com | November 17, 2009
The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon
...phone, but we think that information is incorrect. We have some fairly good information that suggests Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone ¿ LG or Samsung. Samsung has multiple parts in the iPhone and could...
In this article: Google, Android, Iphone, HTC, Samsung, Apple, Toshiba, Microsoft, and Korea
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Yahoo! News | November 11, 2009
Samsung Intros Bada Mobile OS: Do We Need It? (PC World)
...Microsoft, or Google? Starting next year, Samsung will introduce smartphones that will run its own OS, Bada, next to an application store, to better compete with now-popular mobile platforms from Apple and Google. Samsung, the world's...
In this article: Samsung, Apple, Google, Smartphones, Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Android, Android, and Yahoo
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Description from Wikipedia:
The Samsung Group (Korean: 삼성 그룹) is a multinational conglomerate headquarted in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It is the world's largest conglomerate with an annual revenue of US$173.4 billion in 2008 and is South Korea's largest chaebol. The Samsung Group is composed of numerous international affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand including Samsung Electronics, the world's largest electronics company, Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipbuilder and Samsung C&T, a major global construction company. These three multinationals form the core of Samsung Group and reflect its name - the meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "tristar" or "three stars".
Samsung has been the world's most popular consumer electronics brand since 2005 and is the best known South Korean brand in the world. Samsung Group accounts for more than 20% of South Korea's total exports and is the leader in many domestic industries, such as the financial, chemical, retail and entertainment industries. The company's strong influence in South Korea is visible throughout the nation, which has been referred to as the "Republic of Samsung".
- Name:
- Samsung Group
- Type:
- Public
- Location:
- Samsung Town in Seoul, South Korea
- Founder:
- Lee Byung-chul
- Founded:
- 1938
- Industry:
- Conglomerate
- Key People:
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- Lee Kun Hee: Former Chairman and CEO
- Lee Soo-bin: Acting president, CEO of Samsung Life Insurance
- Revenue:
- US$173.4 billion (2008)
- Net Income:
- US$10.7 billion (2008)
- Assets:
- US$252.5 billion (2008)
- No. of Employees:
- 276,000 (2008)
- Subsidiaries:
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- Samsung C&T, etc.
- Samsung Electronics
- Samsung Heavy Industries
- Motto:
- Imagine the Possibilities
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