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Samsung, Apple top Indian charts
Samsung, Apple and Sony are among the leading electronics brands in India when it comes to online purchase levels, new figures have shown.
According to eBay, the ecommerce group, Samsung manufactured 31 percent of all electronics products bought from its site during the first quarter of 2012.
It exactly matched this share in the mobile phone sector, thus registering the highest total of any company overall. Within this, however, Samsung's scores hit 35 percent when considering smartphones, ahead of Sony and BlackBerry on 26 percent each.
Samsung overtakes Nokia as world's No1 phone maker
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Just days after Nokia's debt rating was downgraded to junk status by the ratings agency Fitch, the Finnish phone maker has lost its crown as the world's top maker of cellphones to Korean rival Samsung, according to industry reports issued on Friday.
Indian appliance retailers resist Samsung on margins
A tug-of-war between retailers and manufacturers over margins has resurfaced in India. Samsung, the consumer durables maker, is looking to rationalise payouts to channel partners by as much as 6-7 percentage points, in a bid to reduce the price differential between retailers of home appliances.
Samsung leads Apple in China
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Samsung is the clear leader in China's burgeoning smartphone sector, posing a major challenge for Apple.
Gartner, the research firm, reported that Samsung held 24.3 percent of China's smartphone segment at the end of 2011, measured against the 7.5 percent recorded by Apple's iPhone.
Samsung has taken a diversified approach in the country since 3G services were rolled out in 2009, partnering with all three official network providers: China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.
Increasing demand in backlight and lighting applications to reduce LED oversupply in 2012, says DisplaySearch
In 2011, LED supply exceeded demand by 30 percent due to poor LED TV sales and slow growth in LED lighting. However, this gap is closing in 2012 due to recovering backlight demand and increasing demand for lighting. DisplaySearch expects that the glut will be 19 percent in first quarter 2012 and will drop to 16 percent in second-quarter 2012.
Samsung and Next Top Model Management partner to bring Fashion Week stories to Galaxy Note
To those of us outside of the tents, Fashion Week looks like one glamorous spectacle after another. Samsung Mobile and Next Model Management recently announced that they are partnering to bring the Fashion Week stories directly to Samsung Galaxy users, straight from some of the fashion world's biggest talent – all thanks to the revolutionary Samsung Galaxy Note.
Samsung concentrates on Thailand's B2B market
Samsung is targeting the THB30 billion (USD976.4 million) business-to-business (B2B) market of Thailand with the merger of its corporate product teams into a single unit.
The scheme aims to enlarge the percentage of income from corporate users to 10 percent of total revenue within two years. B2B sales accounted for 6 percent of THB30 billion in total sales in 2010.
Apple retakes smartphone lead in 4Q11; Samsung grabs top spot for full-year 2011, says IHS
After losing market leadership in the third quarter, Apple returned to the number one rank in global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter as consumers flocked to buy the newly introduced iPhone 4S. Meanwhile, based on strong sales of its broad line of smartphone products, Samsung has become the world's largest smartphone brand for the entire year of 2011, marking the first time the South Korean electronics giant has held this distinction, according IHS iSuppli.
Samsung embarks on record hiring spree
South Korea's Samsung will invest a record KRW47.8 trillion (USD40.4 billion) this year and hire 26,000 new employees, also a record, as it seeks to consolidate its leading position in mobile chips and flat screens.
The country's largest business group said in a statement on Tuesday that despite the global economic uncertainty it wanted to expand future growth engines and contribute to the national economy.
Rising input costs in durable affects sales in India
India's consumer durable industry reported one of its worst performances in 2011, growing slower than even the recession years of 2008 and 2009, as frequent price increases due to higher input costs and weaker rupee put off several potential buyers.
LG, Samsung, Godrej, Videocon and Akai missed their 2011 revenue targets for refrigerators, washing machines and televisions by up to 15 percent, after a disastrous October-December quarter, when sales fell by up to 30 percent year on year, company executives said.
