Aiko TanakaFinance
Exchange Traded Concepts Launches 20-Stock Korea Semiconductor ETF on NYSE Arca
Developed with Kiwoom Securities (USA), the KCHP fund holds Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix with a modified market-cap weighting.
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Sarah ChenElectronics
Samsung and SK Hynix Slump Drags Seoul Benchmark Down 3.12 per Cent
Foreign funds offloaded 3.69 trillion won in Seoul shares as Samsung’s delayed payout timetable triggered an 8.70 per cent stock slide.
Minjun ParkElectronics
Samsung Eyes over $72 Billion Shareholder Return Amid AI Chip Surge
Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing to unveil a shareholder return program worth more than $72 billion, driven by record profits from the AI-powered chip supercycle. This move follows a similar large-scale announcement by rival SK Hynix.
Aiko TanakaElectronics
Samsung ‘shock’ as profits start to droop
Samsung Electronics announced sharply lower earnings for the fourth quarter, an earnings “shock” that suggested that the “supercycle” in the global semiconductor market is nearing an end. Preliminary 2018 performance numbers released Tuesday predicted the…
Wei ZhangElectronics
Samsung to invest more in education programs
Samsung Electronics will expand investments to develop youth education programs, it said Monday. The company’s three division heads sent an in-house broadcast to employees that day to share a newly set mission: “Enabling people,” which means to help people…
Sarah ChenElectronics
Samsung to pay its biggest tax bill ever as profits rise
Samsung Electronics is expected to pay 16.8 trillion won ($15 billion) in corporate taxes this year, up 20.1 percent from a year earlier, due to its record earnings, its regulatory briefing showed Monday. It is expected to cough up 28.6 percent of its…
Wei ZhangElectronics
Samsung spent $3.12M lobbying in U.S. last year
The American subsidiary of Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics spent $3.12 million on lobbying U.S. politicians and officials last year, the second-largest amount following 2017, data from a Washington-based research group showed Monday. Samsung…
Aiko TanakaStartups
Korean start-ups also shine at CES in Las Vegas
Industry big boys aren’t the only companies exhibiting at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Over 1,200 start-ups have set up at the event’s Eureka Park, reserved for smaller companies, to capture the attention of consumers and possibly become the…
Maria SantosElectronics
Samsung ranks second in 2018 U.S. patent grants
Samsung Electronics grabbed the No. 2 spot in U.S. patent grants among global corporate giants in 2018, industry data showed Thursday. Samsung Electronics, the world’s top smartphone and memory chip maker, received 5,850 U.S. patent grants last year, up 13…
Wei ZhangElectronics
Samsung signals big 5G equipment push, again, at factory
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s first appearance in the field this year was to celebrate the start of production at a 5G network equipment factory Thursday. His field visit comes as the company puts more weight this year on the 5G…
Sarah ChenElectronics
Samsung Electronics gives stability a try
The CEOs of Samsung Electronics semiconductors, smartphones and consumer electronics divisions all kept their jobs in the company’s annual corporate reshuffle announced Thursday. Kim Ki-nam, head of Samsung’s device solutions division, which includes…
Aiko TanakaLiving
Samsung to support the Olympics through 2028
Samsung Electronics announced on Tuesday it will extend its partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through 2028, from the original 2020 end date of the collaboration. The two parties signed an agreement at a ceremony at the Hotel Shilla in…
Minjun ParkTelecom
Korea’s KT skips Huawei for 5G
KT has chosen Samsung Electronics, Ericsson and Nokia as suppliers of 5G network equipment. As expected, Huawei was excluded from the list. “In choosing 5G equipment providers, the company considered a wide range of factors: the level of technology,…
Aiko TanakaElectronics
Samsung offers laptop with millennial style
Samsung Electronics introduced on Monday a laptop it believes will appeal to millennials. The 13.3-inch computer, the Samsung Notebook Flash, has rounded key caps reminiscent of old typewriters. Its palm rest has a coarse fabric, not conventional metal, which…
Aiko TanakaElectronics
Samsung opens its incubation
Samsung Electronics is opening up its internal incubating program, C-Lab, to young entrepreneurs from outside the company, and it plans to help 300 of them over the next five years. It will incubate 200 internal start-up projects during the same period,…
Rajiv MenonElectronics
Samsung tip has government investigating KIP
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has been investigating a Korean company over technology leakage overseas at the request of Samsung Electronics, sources said on Monday. The probe into KIP, a private company belonging to the Korea Advanced Institute…