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Samsung Electronics seeks China turnaround, unveils mid-tier handsets
October 31st, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled two new mid-tier handsets with a premium design as it prepared to deliver a riposte to its low-priced Chinese rivals and reclaim its title as the top brand in the world’s biggest smartphone market. ...
Samsung Electronics heads for annual profit drop
October 7th, 2014
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 ...
CMC Markets launches upgraded mobile app
October 3rd, 2014
CMC Markets plc. in the UK, (www.cmcmarkets.co.uk), one of the leading providers of financial spread betting and CFD trading, has announced upgrades to its Next Generation mobile apps. The upgrade to the iPhone, iPad and Android™ apps include enhancements ...
Samsung’s profit hit bottom in third quarter ahead of slow recovery
October 2nd, 2014
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 ...
Cambodia sees a growth in consumerism
September 29th, 2014
Though poverty is still rife in the countryside, an urban boom and robust growth fueled by garment manufacturing for brands such as Nike (NKE.N) and GAP (GPS.N) has given rise to a growing consumer class that earns triple the ...
Alibaba IPO signals global ambitions
September 12th, 2014
It was a scene straight out of Silicon Valley — only it took place across the Pacific. In 1999, Jack Ma gathered his wife and 17 friends in his small apartment in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou, about 100 ...
Apple investors: Buy the phone, sell the watch
September 10th, 2014
Apple shares on Tuesday were generally bought on the rumor but sold on the news — a broad range of it, in fact — raising the question of whether the late-day drop was a reflection of new investor concerns ...
Apple loses bid to block sales of 9 Samsung phones
August 28th, 2014
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 ...
Why Bitcoin won’t be the money of the future – but cryptocurrencies might be
August 21st, 2014
Proponents of Bitcoin like to suggest that it will be the money of the future. Critics point to its price volatility, evidence of a Bitcoin bubble and other problems. With the price of Bitcoin having just fallen below $500 ...
Samsung’s next reinvention challenge is ‘reinvent itself’ & to be more innovative
August 7th, 2014
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. ...
