Samsung Electronics suffered another blow in its effort to move past a crisis over exploding smartphone batteries, as customers reported problems with replacement devices and the company was forced to halt production
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Few things motivate Samsung employees like the opportunity to take advantage of weakness at Apple. Earlier this year, managers at the Korean company began hearing the next iPhone wouldn’t have any eye-popping innovations. The device would look
Samsung Electronics will push out a software update for Korea that caps the capacity of Galaxy Note7 smartphone batteries at 60%, a stop-gap measure to prevent overheating as the device’s global recall proceeds. The unusual move, announced
Samsung Electronics lost US$22bn of market value over two days as investors factor in a bigger hit to its bottom line from widening bans and warnings on its Note7 smartphones. Shares have plunged 11% since Friday, the biggest
For more than a week, Samsung’s shares survived reports of its exploding Galaxy Note7 smartphone, a worldwide recall, and news of the “heartbreaking” US$1bn bill. Yet calls by airlines and regulators for passengers to follow somewhat mundane
Samsung Electronics is involved in detailed work with South African banks to launch the company’s Samsung Pay mobile payment and digital wallet service locally next year. The company’s South African
Samsung Electronics is warning that some television manufacturers are passing off 4K-resolution ultra-high-definition (UHD) TVs as the real thing when…
Samsung Electronics says it has achieved a download speed of 7,5Gbit/s using future fifth-generation (5G) mobile broadband technology that is still in the early stages of development. At the same time, the Korean company claims it has managed
Samsung Electronics has announced plans to open a television manufacturing plant at the Dube TradePort north of Durban by the end of the year. The company will invest US$20m (about R210m) in the facility between now and 2018
Samsung warned this week that its earnings in its most recent financial quarter were likely to have tumbled by as much as 26,5% – the third straight quarter of decline – in part because of a glut of unsold smartphones and growing competition from Chinese manufacturers. These must be troubling times for the