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Hlubi Shivanda, Director of Business Operations, Innovation and Corporate Affairs at Samsung SA.

Samsung Solve For Tomorrow Competition

The Mail & Guardian conducted a Q&A session with Hlubi Shivanda, Director of Business Operations and Innovation and Corporate Affairs at Samsung South Africa

Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong (C), vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, leaves after a retrial at the Seoul High Court in Seoul in October 2019. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

Samsung boss goes on trial on drugs charges

Two months ago Lee Jae-yong was released early from a two and a half year prison term for bribery, embezzlement and other offences in connection with a corruption scandal

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Samsung Electronics flags near-30% slump in Q4 operating profit

The shock warning added to concerns about the broader tech sector after Apple sent shudders through world markets in early January

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Samsung Electronics posts record in Q3 despite smartphone struggles

The world’s top maker of smartphones and memory chips has recovered from a series of setbacks

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Samsung Electronics profit dips as phone sales fall

Samsung, the world’s biggest maker of memory chips, has weathered a series of setbacks, including an embarrassing global recall of its Galaxy Note 7

The New Samsung Note5.

Samsung tips record Q4 operating profit of more than $14-billion

South Korean telecom giant Samsung Electronics expects to post a record operating profit of more than $14-billion in the fourth quarter

Samsung UHD TV unveiled at CES 2015.

CES 2015: Samsung unveils vision of ‘smart living’ future

At CES 2015 in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled its vision for smarter living, which among other technologies includes an 88" SUHD TV and virtual reality.

Samsung will unveil the first all-in-one PC with a curved screen

CES 2015: Samsung to unveil first curved all-in-one PC

Samsung will unveil the first all-in-one PC with a curved screen, at the International CES in Las Vegas next week.

Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

Samsung to open television manufacturing plant in Durban

Samsung Electronics is to open a TV manufacturing plant in the Dube Trade Port near Durban, investing $20-million over the next four years.

Mobile operators’ claims that reducing inter-connection fees between networks would hurt their businesses and hike prices for consumers

US judge won’t lift Samsung tablet ban

A judge has refused to lift a ban on sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 computers as legal brawling continues between the electronics titan and Apple.

Samsung’s shares plunged after a ruling in the US last week that it had copied key elements of Apple’s technology.

Apple may widen its attack

Shares in Asian smartphone manufacturer Samsung plunged by 7.5% in the South Korean capital Seoul on Monday.

Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages.

Samsung promises to fight after losing against Apple

Apple scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the popular iPhone and iPad.

A US judge has denied Apple’s request for a permanent injunction against Samsung’s smartphones.

Apple takes a swing at Samsung patents

Apple experts say Samsung abused its "monopoly power" over certain wireless patents and demanded an unreasonable royalty for their use in the iPhone.

Apple has moved toward a debt issue

Apple takes on Samsung designs

Samsung Electronics has told jurors its products are not copycats of Apple’s iPhone but rather an example of legitimate American-style competition.

Engineers in the making

Engineers in the making

Samsung graduates are now equipped to take the technical world by storm.

Samsung aims to ban iPhone 5 sales, say reports

Reports say Samsung will file lawsuits to try to block the sale of Apple’s iPhone 5 as part of its global legal tussle with the US technology giant.

For sponsors, Games were money well spent

Sponsors of the Beijing Olympics have spent hundreds of millions of dollars for 16 days in the spotlight and they reckon it was money well spent.

China vows to crack down on ambush advertising

Beijing promised on Tuesday to fight ambush advertising during the Olympic Games that threaten official sponsors, saying organised groups of spectators wearing competing brand…

Samsung chief steps down after indictment

South Korea’s most powerful businessman announced on Tuesday he is stepping down after 20 years at the helm of the Samsung group, following his indictment for tax evasion and…

Google launches ‘first truly open’ phone platform

Google on Monday spelled out long-rumoured plans to enter the cellphone market in 2008 by building software that could help the industry make the internet run more easily on…