Following some pressure from the public and government, Samsung has decided to sell its stake in iMarketKorea that provides procurement services and maintenance, repair and operations services. Samsung Electronics along with eight other affiliated companies will sell a combined stake of 58.7 percent in South Korea’s leading MRO company. The decision to sell the […]
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Samsung eyeing InterDigital patents
Samsung is reportedly interested in buying InterDigital Inc.’s patent portfolio, according to two Bloomberg sources. In addition to Samsung, Google and Apple are also talking to InterDigital Inc. privately to buy the patents. InterDigital holds about 8,800 patents related to mobile technologies and is used in many Android devices, iPhone and few BlackBerry smartphones. […]
Samsung buys memory company Grandis
Samsung made a brief announcement confirming its acquisition of US-based Grandis Inc. Grandis is said to be a frontrunner in spin transfer torque random access memory (STT-RAM). Samsung has not revealed the monetary transaction but will take over all Grandis’ technology, assets and employees and will merge into their R&D operations. Samsung expects Grandis […]
USITC will investigate Apple’s complaint against Samsung
USITC last week announced to investigate Samsung’s complaint against Apple and now they’ve confirmed to investigate Samsung on a complaint by Apple. Apple claims few Samsung devices infringe on their patents and has requested ITC to issue an exclusion as well as cease and desist orders for the infringed products. Understandably, the investigation of […]
Samsung rules North American TV Market in H1 2011
Samsung is citing an NPD report that places the Korean giant at the top of the table in the TV market in North America. According to the report, Samsung is the number one TV company for the first half of this year garnering a market share of 35 percent by value and over 25 […]