Samsung Electronics Co. regained its status as the world's largest smartphone seller in the first quarter of the year, dethroning Apple Inc. in terms of revenue, data showed on Tuesday.Samsung sold smartphones worth US$23.62 billion in the January-March period, regaining the top spot lost to the iPhone maker in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the data by market researcher Strategy Analytics.The first-quarter figure is up $952 million from the previous quarter's reading, they showed

Samsung Electronics Co. has sold more than 10 million smartphones in China in the first three months of this year, retaining its position as the top smartphone seller in the world's most populous country for the fifth straight quarter, data showed Monday.Samsung sold 12.5 million smartphones in China between January and March, accounting for a 18.5 percent market share, up 2.2 percentage points from the previous quarter, according to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, a U.S. market researc

JEJU ― LG Electronics is ready to expand its lineup for Google TVs this year, as the company expects sales to rise on growing demand, a high-ranking LG executive confirmed on Friday.These innovative smart TVs operating on Google’s Android operating system are consequently expected to become available in more countries other than the U.S., China and Korea.The language band for the Google TVs is also likely to be expanded to more than the current 10 or so based on LG forecasts for higher demand. I

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, two Korean companies that are leading the world’s television market, appear to be in a forced race to churn out sets fitted with organic light emitting displays, but experts believe the competition will soon become meaningless. “The technology simply will not stretch that far to make it affordable for the mass consumer market,” said one display expert, declining to be identified.He figured that at most, the two companies would each sell 100 units once Sams

Microsoft thinks it has the one.The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price.For the past two years, Microsoft has led the gaming industry in console sales with the Xbox 360. But it's been eight years since that machine came out, and Microsoft is the last of the three major console makers to unveil a new system. In

Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and inane details like what a friend ate for dinner.“The key is that there are few

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest smartphone maker, captured a whopping 95 percent of all Android smartphone profits in the first quarter of the year, data showed on Thursday.According to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, global Android smartphone profits reached $5.3 billion in total in the January-March period. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share with $5.1 billion during the cited period."An efficient supply chain, sleek products and crisp marketing

Samsung Group, South Korea’s top family-owned conglomerate, said Wednesday that it plans to spend 170 billion won ($153 million) in training software engineers and nurturing the related industry over the next five years.The group also said it plans to hire over 2,000 software engineers every year through 2017, up almost 30 percent from an average seen in the past few years.Samsung will also offer software-related training courses for 50,000 students over the next five years.“The plans will help

Choi Mun-kee, the minister of science, ICT and future planning, on Wednesday said the nation’s most influential Web portal Naver was too dominant.“(Naver) seems to have too much of the market,” Choi said, saying that when companies go over the line, they should switch modes to focus more on social contribution.“Naver, however, still seems to be concentrating to much on making the pie bigger,” the minister said in a press conference. He added that the “young CEO” ― Kim Sang-hun, CEO of NHN, which