All posts tagged "Samsung"

  • In this July 17, 2015 file photo, employees walk past a logo of Samsung Group at the head office of Samsung C&T Corp. in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's financial regulator said Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 it has launched an investigation into possible insider trading by Samsung executives related to a contentious takeover deal. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
    Samsung warns of tough 2016 after 4Q profit sinks

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics reported Thursday a bigger-than-expected decline in fourth quarter earnings as its mainstay smartphone and semiconductor businesses suffer amid weakening global demand for consumer electronics. The South Korean company also warned...

    • Posted January 27, 2016
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  • Lee Boo-jin, left, and Im Woo-jae
    Court grants divorce to Samsung heiress

    By Lee Kyung-min A court allowed Lee Boo-jin, the eldest daughter of Samsung Group’s owner family, to divorce her husband Im Woo-jae, ending their 17-year marriage Thursday. The Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Court accepted the...

    • Posted January 14, 2016
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  • (Graphic: Cha Sang-won, Source: Job Korea)
    Samsung seen as intelligent; Hyundai Motor masculine

    By Yoon Sung-won Korean college students tend to associate the nation’s top conglomerates with conservative and authoritative images, a survey showed Wednesday. According to local recruitment information provider, Job Korea, collegians think Samsung has an intelligent image...

    • Posted December 24, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye and Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for Samsung BioLogics' third biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Songdo, Incheon, Monday. (Korea Times photo by Hong In-ki)
    Samsung to build world’s largest biopharmaceutical plant

    By Yoon Sung-won Samsung BioLogics will invest 850 billion won ($740 million) in establishing the world’s largest biopharmaceutical product manufacturing facility in Songdo, Incheon. The Samsung Group unit will be the world’s top biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing operator...

    • Posted December 22, 2015
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  • In this July 17, 2015 file photo, employees walk past a logo of Samsung Group at the head office of Samsung C&T Corp. in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's financial regulator said Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 it has launched an investigation into possible insider trading by Samsung executives related to a contentious takeover deal. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
    Samsung official sentenced to 3½ years in Vietnam

    HANOI (Yonhap) — A Vietnamese court sentenced a Samsung official to three and a half years in prison over a scaffolding collapse that killed 13 workers, the South Korean embassy said Monday. Another South Korean official of...

    • Posted December 21, 2015
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  • An employee of Samsung Electronics Co. watches a mobile phone near an advertisement of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphone at a Samsung Electronics shop in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 30, 2015. Samsung Electronics reported Thursday a fifth straight drop in quarterly earnings as the Galaxy S6 failed to reverse its declining fortunes in the smartphone industry. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Galaxy S7 to focus on performance over design: sources

    By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL (Yonhap) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s new flagship smartphone, presumably the Galaxy S7, is set to be showcased at a tech exhibition slated for February, an industry source said Friday, with the device expected...

    • Posted December 17, 2015
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  • In this Oct. 23, 2015 photo, Hwang Sang-gi, a founding member of advocacy group Banolim, holds a picture of his daughter Yu-mi during an interview denouncing Samsung’s response in its latest negotiations with sick workers outside Samsung buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Yu-mi’s death from leukemia in 2007 galvanized concern about conditions at Samsung factories and South Korea’s semiconductor industry in general. Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony and bad publicity over whether its semiconductor factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional offer of financial assistance. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Samsung money for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: some sickened workers and their families say they’ll never accept its highly conditional...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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