Samsung Electronics will spend $1.2 billion over four years for U.S. based Internet of Things (IoT) R&D and investments. Vice Chairman & CEO, Dr.Oh-Hyun Kwon announced this at the Samsung forum in Washington DC. In his keynote Vice Chairman Kwon offered industry and policymakers two principles in addition to a ‘human-centered’ approach: to be open […]
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Samsung markets the Gear IconX with the latest Olympic Games ad
Samsung is the Worldwide Partner of Olympic Games for many years and now they’ve released their new Olympic-centric commercial that promotes their latest Gear IconX. The ad titled “The Chant” revolves around South Sudanese athlete Margret Rumat Rumat Hassan who will be competing under the South Sudanese flag for the first time.
Samsung buys Joyent to fulfill its cloud ambitions
Samsung has confirmed that they’ve agreed to acquire US-based Joyent Inc. that offers cloud services. Samsung says the acquisition will help them support its “growing lineup of mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based software and services whereas Joyent can scale their technology and operations to grow and compete in the cloud market. While Samsung […]
Samsung Pay comes to Australia
Australia is the latest country to get Samsung Pay, the company today confirmed. Users with a compatible Samsung phone – Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge can use their device to transact online or at regular NFC-enabled POS. The current launch partners for Samsung […]
Spain gets Samsung Pay
Samsung seems to be slowly and steadily expanding its Samsung Pay service and the latest country to get it is Spain. Interestingly, Spain is the first country to have the service in Europe and works with CaixaBank and imaginBank customers whereas the service will be available for Abanca and Banco Sabadell customers soon. Samsung says […]