It’s a day of mergers and acquisitions. After confirming the S-LCD takeover to make it a wholly-owned Samsung Electronics subsidiary, Samsung Electronics will absorb its another subsidiary, Samsung LED. Samsung Electronics had an equal stake in the LED subsidiary with Samsung Electro-Mechanics but with the merger, Samsung Electronics will merge the unit with its […]
Archives for December 2011
Samsung to acquire S-LCD, will supply LCD panels to Sony
It’s official. Samsung will acquire all Sony shares from the S-LCD joint venture to make it a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. Samsung will pay Sony about 1.08 trillion won (US$940 million) for the transfer of shares and have entered into a new agreement wherein Samsung will supply LCD panels to Sony at […]
Reuters: Sony to end S-LCD partnership with Samsung
Sony will end its 7-year partnership to manufacture LCD panels with Samsung, says Reuters. The report is pretty light on the details but Samsung has confirmed to make an announcement soon where Sony will sell back its stake to Samsung. Sony and Samsung setup S-LCD as a 50:50 joint venture in 2004 to manufacture […]
Samsung to release Galaxy S II Duos in China
Looks like Samsung is going big on the Android Duos range. After announcing the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos, Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S II will get the dual-SIM goodness. Expected in China, the Galaxy S II Duos (I929) will support CDMA2000 and GSM band. Apart from the network support, the Galaxy […]
Samsung justifies why Galaxy S and Original Galaxy Tab can’t be upgraded to Android 4.0
Samsung recently announced the list of devices that will receive the new Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich update in 2012. However, the list did not cover the Galaxy S (I9000) or the original Galaxy Tab (P1000) which irked a lot of users. Samsung has now justified why it cannot give the Ice Cream […]