• Manufacturers pack smartphones with AI tools to boost sales

    Barcelona, Spain - Smartphone makers are packing their latest devices with flashy new artificial intelligence tools such as real-time voice translation and advanced photo editing in efforts to reignite consumer demand. The trend was on display at the telecom industry's biggest annual show, the four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) which got...
  • AI in focus as world’s biggest mobile fair gets underway in Spain

    Barcelona, Spain - The world's biggest mobile phone fair throws open its doors in Barcelona Monday with the sector looking to artificial intelligence to try and reverse declining sales. Phone makers are expected to focus on the unique AI-powered tools of their latest handsets at the four-day Mobile World Congress in...
  • Samsung profit dips 34.57 percent

    Its operating profit for Q4 was US$2.1bn.
  • Samsung’s AI pivot

    Part of the company's bid to reclaim smartphone throne.
  • Samsung expects profit dip

    The tech giant forecasts profit to fall to US$2.1bn for Q4.
  • Vietnam TikTok entrepreneurs turn job losses into livestream gains

    Bac Giang, Vietnam - Vi Thi Anh spent half a decade doing monotonous low-paid work in industrial hubs near Vietnam's capital Hanoi, assembling mobile phones for global electronics companies including Samsung. Then she discovered she could earn vastly more hawking food products to thousands of followers as one of the country's...
  • Samsung to add real-time translation to smartphone model

    Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker accounting for a fifth of global sales between July and September, as Apple trails in second with 16 percent of the market, according to market tracker Counterpoint. Speaking to a foreigner using the new AI feature will be "as simple as turning on...
  • Samsung profits plunge

    The company expects Q3 profits to fall nearly 80% to US$1.8bn.
  • Samsung Q1 profit falls 95%

    This is firm's worst quarterly profit since Q1 2009.
  • Foxconn pulls from $19.4 bn deal in India to make semiconductors

    The plan was to boost New Delhi's self-reliance in the technology supply chain, given that semiconductors are an essential component of nearly all modern electronics -- powering everything from coffee machines to electric cars. The deal would have seen Vedanta -- one of India's biggest mining companies -- take a...
  • Samsung Q2 profit may drop 95%

    Global glut of semiconductors hurts company's core memory sector.
  • Meet EU ‘gatekeeper’ definition, say seven tech giants

    BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -  Seven tech giants, including Amazon and Apple, have informed the European Union they meet the threshold to come under landmark new rules to curb their market dominance, Brussels said on Tuesday. The firms - Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Facebook umbrella Meta, Microsoft and Samsung...
  • Samsung bans use of ChatGPT for mobile, appliances staff

    Seoul, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics is banning employees in its mobile and appliances division from using generative AI services such as ChatGPT, the company said on Tuesday, after instances of "misuse" of the technology. Interest in artificial intelligence chatbots has soared since the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT debuted in November. ChatGPT caused...
  • Samsung expects profit to plunge

    Memory chip sales hammered by a global downturn.
  • Aramco signs MoU with Samsung

    The deal is designed to enhance Saudi digital transformation.
  • Apple loses to rival Samsung in Middle East smartphone market

    Dubai, UAE - Apple has lost ground in the Middle East smartphone market during 2022 to main rival Samsung, according to research by Canalys.  Samsung has enhanced its share in the smartphone market in the Middle East to 40 percent in 2022, up from 34 percent in 2021, while Apple...
  • Google seeks to enhance smartphone credentials with Pixel 7

    The device was unveiled this week in Brooklyn, where representatives from the Mountain View, California giant highlighted top-flight features that can silence background noise on the phone. First introduced in 2016, the Pixel was a late-comer to the portable phone trend, arriving nearly a decade after Apple's iPhone and seven...
  • Samsung Q1 profit up almost 60%

    Steady chip demand and brisk smartphone sales led to the rise.
  • Samsung profit up 53%

    High memory chip prices helped the company.
  • Samsung eyes Biogen for $42bn

    Biogen is known for its Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm.
  • Samsung bags Aramco project

    Samsung Engineering has bagged a $1.23 billion contract from Aramco to develop Jafurah Gas Process Package 1, a major project that marks the first shale gas development in Saudi Arabia.
  • Samsung to build $17 billion microchip plant in Texas

    Samsung said on Tuesday it will build a microchip factory in Texas, a $17 billion investment that comes as semiconductor shortages are causing supply chain delays across many industries. "Welcome to Texas, Samsung!' tweeted Texas' Republican governor Greg Abbott, who called the planned factory "the largest foreign direct investment in...
  • Alphabet posts $18.9 bn profit

    Google remains a centerpiece of online activity.
  • Samsung boss convicted, fined for anaesthetic misuse

    Lee Jae-yong was found guilty of having repeatedly taken the anaesthetic at a plastic surgery clinic
  • Google debuts new Pixel

    Smartphone sales are dominated by Apple, Samsung
  • Samsung AI course for UAE youth

    The students will learn data science, probability, statistics, linear algebra, python
  • Samsung Q3 profit to soar 30%

    The company expects its operating profits at 15.8 trillion
  • Iran bans LG and Samsung home appliances

    The import of home appliances made by these two South Korean companies is now banned by Iran, following an apparent request from local manufacturers, who may now ramp up production of similar products indigenously.
  • GCC witnesses 5.8 percent decline in mobile phone sales in second quarter

    Due to supply shortages and high levels of inventory carried over from the first quarter, smartphone shipments to the GCC were more constrained than expected in Q2, believe experts. Samsung dominated the GCC smartphone market during the period with a share of 44.9 percent, according to a report by International...
  • Samsung announces $205 billion investment plan

    The tech giant is South Korea's largest conglomerate and its overall turnover is equivalent to a fifth of the national gross domestic product