Cross-town rivals, Samsung and LG have been engaged in lawsuits for quite some time. While some complaints included serious offences like stealing technology, vandalising washing machines is what is grabbing the headlines for both the companies recently. Today, both companies have issued a joint statement saying they have ended all their ongoing disputes and lawsuits. […]
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Samsung seems to have dropped free Dropbox storage for OneDrive
Samsung has been bundling free Dropbox cloud storage with its Galaxy devices for quite some time but it seems Samsung has left out pre-installed Dropbox solution for Microsoft’s OneDrive. As part of the agreement, Samsung will pre-load some Microsoft apps in the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge and as per the official spec sheet, […]
Samsung Pay is Samsung’s take on mobile payments
As rumoured, Samsung introduced the Samsung Pay service that will work with the recently announced Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge. The Samsung Pay mobile payment service takes advantage of LoopPay’s technology, which Samsung acquired last month and allows users to pay through NFCs or a regular point-of-sale terminal using Magnetic Secure Transmission from […]
Samsung freezes employees’ salaries to consolidate profitability
Samsung’s declining profits has resulted into freezing pay for its employees for 2015. The freezing of salary will be in effect for 2015 but the salaries won’t affect performance driven incentives that depends on profits. This is the first time since 2009 Samsung has frozen the salaries of its employees. According to Yonhap News’ source, […]
Samsung acquires LoopPay
Samsung is transforming its existing relationship with LoopPay into something more substantial as they’ve confirmed to buy the US-based company. The amount of money exchanged is unknown but it reiterates Samsung’s intentions to bring mobile payment to its future lineup of smartphones. In fact, Samsung’s Galaxy S6 is rumoured to be the first smartphone to […]