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Samsung is giving American and Japanese electronics giants a run for their money. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korea: SEC) was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea. The company is one of the largest chip and electronics makers, offering a range of consumer products like TVs, DVD players, audio and video equipment, cameras, memory and chips, phones, and networking devices. The Company has annual revenue of about $84.2 billion and employs about 123,000 people. In March 2006 the company unveiled the world's first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone (model: SGH-i310).
Vice Chairman & Co-CEO
Hak Soo LeeNumber of Employees 150,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Household Laundry Equipment Manufacturing: 335224
Recent Events
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Arrowhead Research Unit Enters Into Third Yr Of Joint Development Program With Samsung Electronics -...
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Unidym extends collaboration with Samsung for EPD displays
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SAMSUNG TO LAUNCH OPEN MOBILE PLATFORM IN DECEMBER
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Mobile App Wars: Samsung's New Bada To Take On iPhone, Droid, Verizon
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Why Did Samsung Just Announce Another Mobile OS?
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(Samsung reports $3.8B 3rd quarter profits)
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SAMSUNG TO RECALL 43,000 MICROWAVE OVENS FROM U.S.
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Comment: Is Abu Dhabi targeting Intel rather than TSMC?
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Samsung Unveils Thinnest Flash Memory Chip
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Samsung to Pay $1.3B to Qualcomm for Licenses
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Seoul shares seen higher;eyes on Hynix, exporters
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Samsung Electronics and Microsoft MSFT Announce Green IT Collaboration
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SAMSUNG, MICROSOFT TO COLLABORATE ON MARKETING POWER-EFFICIENT PRODUCTS
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SAMSUNG TECHWIN TO ACQUIRE SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS' CCTV BIZ
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Samsung to recall refrigerators sold in S.Korea
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Samsung Unveils 3.9mm Thin 40-inch LCD TV Panel
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Samsung, Handmark to Fund Mobile Game Development
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Samsung Electronics Selects Tele Atlas for Digital Maps and Location Content
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Samsung launches CorbyPRO to meet needs of youth market
News & Analysis
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Apple Tops Chart as Nokia, Samsung Step It Up
BNET
- 2009-11-11
HELSINKI - The world's two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled on Tuesday their latest rivals to the iPhone as Apple became the top profit generator in the handset industry. Apple Inc overtook Nokia in the September quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit...
Samsung to give up Symbian in 2010, says senior VP
BNET
- 2009-11-11
Samsung Electronics will continue to adopt Windows Mobile- and Android-based platforms for new smartphones launched in 2010, but will quit Symbian and adopt in-house developed open operating system Samsung Bada, according to senior vice president Don Joo Lee. Samsung's handset shipments will top 200 million units in 2009 and the...
Samsung B5722 and C6112 dual SIM phones show up
BNET
- 2009-11-11
If you intend to buy a new dual SIM phone in the near future, you should know that Samsung is readying not one, but two such handsets that should be released in Europe this December: B5722 and C6112, both being included in Samsung's Duos family. The first device, Samsung B5722,...
Apple Tops Phone Chart
BNET
- 2009-11-10
By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters UK) - The world's two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled on Tuesday their latest rivals to the iPhone as Apple became the top profit generator in the handset industry. Apple Inc AAPL overtook Nokia in the September quarter as...
Apple Tops Phone Chart
ReutersUK
- 2009-11-10
By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondentHELSINKI (Reuters UK) - The world's two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled on Tuesday their latest rivals to the iPhone as Apple became the top profit generator in the handset industry.Apple Inc AAPL overtook Nokia in the September quarter as the cellphone...
Samsung Aims for the Masses With bada, But Will Developers Bite?
BNET
- 2009-11-10
Samsung today unveiled plans to launch a new mobile software layer in the hopes of bringing high-end, smartphone-style apps to a broad range of its handsets. The question, of course, is whether it can lure developers to the platform. Samsung's bada – which means "ocean" in the Korean company's native...
ITC rules Samsung infringed on four Sharp patents, bans import of some LCDs
BNET
- 2009-11-10
The US International Trade Commission already ruled in June of this year that Samsung had infringed on one patent held by Sharp, but it's now back with another ruling that finds Samsung violated no less than four LCD-related patents held by its rival. Once again, the ITC has...
Why Did Samsung Just Announce Another Mobile OS? [Samsung]
BNET
- 2009-11-10
They're calling it "Bada," which means ocean in Korean. And it's got an SDK! After sifting through hundreds of words of deliberately vague press release, this is all we really know about Samsung's new mobile OS. Well, almost. Samsung is as aware as any company of just how many smartphones...
Samsung M3310 and B3410 appear in official photos
BNET
- 2009-11-10
We've already talked about two upcoming Samsung handsets – M3310 and B3410. It seems the Korean company is approaching the launch date as we caught the official photos on the Interwebs. As a reminder, the M3310 is a music-centric device sporting a dual-slider form factor and such things as 3.2-megapixel...
Samsung to permit independent 'apps'
Financial Times
- 2009-11-09
Samsung Electronics is seeking to become a bigger player in the fast-growing smartphone market by giving independent developers the tools to devise software applications for its handsets.The world's second-largest handset maker will today unveil "bada", the South Korean company's new mobile platform, for which software developers can produce applications.It...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Doh Seok Choi | President & CFO |
| Youngsoo Kim | Vice President of Corporate Strategy |
| Tetsuo Iwasaki | Director |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Hak Soo Lee | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO |
| Jong Yong Yun | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO |
| Hak-Soo Lee | Chairman's Office and Head of, Samsung Strategic Planning Office |
| Chae-Woong Lee | Board of Directors |
| Dong-Min Yoon | Board of Directors |
| Goran S. Malm | Board of Directors |
| Jae-Sung Hwang | Board of Directors |
| Jong-Yong Yun | Board of Directors |
| Kun-Hee Lee | Board of Directors |
| Sandip Tiwari | Advisory Board |
| Yoon-Woo Lee | Vice Chairman, Corp Technology Operations & Global Collaboration |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman & Co-CEO | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | President & CFO | Current |
Youngsoo Kim is Vice President of Corporate Strategy Planning Team of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a position he has held since January, 2004. In this function he is responsible for the areas of strategic alliance, mergers and acquisitions as well as new business development.
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice President of Corporate Strategy | Current |
| Continua Health Alliance | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Chairman's Office and Head of, Samsung Strategic Planning Office | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Chairman & Co-CEO | Former |
| Samsung Group | Chairman | Former |
| Samsung Corporation | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Samsung Group | Board of Directors | Former |
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| Anvik Corporation | Advisory Board | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Advisory Board | Current |
| Advanced Design Consulting USA, Inc | Advisory Board | Current |
| Textools Communications | Advisory Board | Current |
A founder, chairman and CEO of Applied Materials, Japan and served as the region's president for 10 years. He holds an elected corporate senior vice president position of Applied Materials, Inc and chairman of AKT, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Material for TFT-LCD manufacturing equipment business. He also is an outside director Of Samsung Electronics and a member of the advisory board of Toshiba Ceramics, Co, and Development Bank of Japan. He served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Director | Current |
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| Samsung Group | Board of Directors | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman, Corp Technology Operations & Global Collaboration | Current |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Vice Chairman, Corp Technology Operations & Global Collaboration | Current |
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