Samsung Electronics Co. won a small but meaningful battle Wednesday after a U.S. court dismissed Apple Inc.'s bid to ban sales of its nine older models in the United States.Judge Lucy H. Koh, a U.S. district judge in San Jose, California, rejected an injunction filed by the iPhone maker to block sales of nine Samsung smartphone lines, including the Galaxy S3, for infringing its patented technologies.The court decision came after a U.S. federal jury concluded in May that Samsung and Apple have in

South Korea's antitrust watchdog has launched an investigation into Kakao Corp., the operator of the country's most-used messenger service Kakao Talk, for possibly abusing its market leader position, industry sources said Thursday.An investigation is underway into allegations that Kakao was involved in abusing its market dominance in deals with smaller service suppliers. A probe is also being conducted on its scheduled merger with Daum Corp., the country's No. 2 Internet portal operator, the sou

Shareholders of Daum Communications Corp. and Kakao Corp. on Wednesday approved the merger of the two firms that will create the biggest company on South Korea's secondary bourse."As the merger deal passed the last step, (Daum and Kakao) will finalize the related procedures and officially launch the new entity on Oct. 1," the two firms said in a press release."With this, we have begun our full-fledged efforts to emerge as a global communication-information-life platform provider," they said.The

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. has resumed its supply of dynamic random access memory products to its rival U.S. Apple Inc. for the iPhone 6 to be released next month, industry sources said Wednesday, in a sign of reconciliation after a series of patent disputes.The world's No. 1 maker of smartphones recently has been providing its 20-nano level mobile DRAM for Apple's new iPhone, the sources said. The U.S. tech player has been resorting to SK hynix Inc. and Micron Technology Inc. for the

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant, said Tuesday it would add a new model to its flagship G3 lineup next month that comes with a stylus and is marked down in price.LG said the G3 Stylus would be a low-end version of the global hit G3 smartphone, equipped with a Rubberdium pen along with other original key G3 features such as “Knock Code,” which allows users to unlock their device by tapping the screen several times.The new model runs on the third-generation network, making it mo

The size of the long-term evolution market in China is expected to become the world's largest in 2014 by overtaking that of the United States, a report showed Tuesday."We predict China will overtake the U.S. as the number one LTE market in terms of LTE smartphone sales in the second half of 2014," Neil Shah was quoted in the report by Hong Kong-based industry tracker Counterpoint.China, which introduced the LTE service in December 2013, moved into the world's No. 2 position in LTE smartphone sal

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea‘s No. 2 TV maker, said Monday it will suspend production of plasma display panel TVs in the near future amid falling demand.“We are internally conducting a study on when we should suspend the PDP business,” said Ha Hyun-hwoi, who heads LG’s home entertainment division. “We will make an official announcement on the issue in the future.”Samsung SDI Co., a battery arm of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, already announced last month it will stop its PDP

A civic group on Monday called for Samsung Electronics Co. to take full responsibility and comply with an appellate court decision last week that held the tech giant liable for the leukemia deaths of two former production-line employees."Samsung should follow the court ruling and provide compensation as well as a sincere apology to the families of the victims, and come up with viable measures to prevent any more such deaths," the Protector of Health and Human Rights of Semiconductor Workers (SHA

Samsung Electronics Co. took top place in global sales of Long-Term Evolution smartphones in the second quarter, beating its rival and first-quarter No. 1 seller Apple Inc., data showed Sunday. According to the data by market researcher Strategy Analytics, Samsung sold 28.6 million LTE smartphones in the April-June period, grabbing a 32.2 percent market share. The LTE smartphones run on broadband LTE networks that allow users access and stream data faster than on the 3G network.The first-quarter

Samsung Electronics topped the global NAND flash market in the second quarter of 2014, data showed Friday, on the back of increased demand from Chinese smartphone makers who have been raising their profiles in the global market.The market share for the South Korean electronics giant in NAND flash reached 30.8 percent in the April-June period, up 0.8 percentage point from a quarter earlier, the data compiled by industry tracker DRAMeXchange showed.Along with dynamic random access memory chips, NA