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JioHotstar Crosses 200 Million Paying Subscribers on IPL Frenzy
JioHotstar has increased its paying subscriber base to over 200 million, driven by multi-language live broadcasts of the hugely popular Indian Premier League cricket matches. To get so many paying subscribers just from India in such a short time was “pretty satisfying,” said Uday Shankar, vice chairman of JioStar.
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Disney Bets on Korean and Japanese Originals in Asia Growth Push
Disney is focusing on select Asian markets to help scale up the local subscriber base and draw international viewership, while cutting content investment in Southeast Asia. Its India operation merged with Reliance Industries’s media business to form a joint venture called JioStar.
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Samsung Aims to Introduce Affordable Foldable Phones to Challenge Apple's iPhone Range
Samsung Electronics is considering adding an affordable option to its portfolio of foldable phones, in a move to hasten adoption of the novel form factor. “We are trying to make a leap in our price positioning,” the chief of its mobile business, TM Roh, told Bloomberg News. “We are seriously considering the timing, but it is surely a difficul...
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South Korea Proposes Stronger Incentives, Bigger Tax Breaks to Boost Critical Chip Sector
South Korea plans to introduce bigger tax breaks for chip manufacturers in the country, a month after a law allowing for new incentives was passed. The country has been caught between the US and China in an escalating fight over critical semiconductors, which are used in a wide range of electronic devices from smartphones to missiles.
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Samsung Ends Galaxy Note, Bets Big on Foldables to Tackle iPhone
Samsung is making the biggest change to its smartphone strategy in years by reorganising around its big-selling Galaxy S and foldable Galaxy Z series. The company plans to discontinue its Note lineup of stylus-equipped phones and instead distribute that capability across its portfolio while pushing premium foldables in its challenge to Apple.
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Fortnite Row: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Blasts Apple, Google; Calls for Single App Store
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney renewed his attack on Apple and Google as the world’s dominant mobile duopoly before calling for a universal app store that works across all operating systems as the solution.
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He Built An $8.9 Billion Fortune. Then Trouble Began With A Fire
Bom Kim amassed a fortune at Coupang Inc., the Amazon of South Korea, that reached as much as $8.9 billion, and became the poster child of a new kind of wealth generation in the country.
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Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch on a Global Level
Samsung Electronics warned it’s grappling with the fallout from a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally, becoming the largest tech giant to voice concerns about chip shortages spreading beyond the automaking industry.
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Harvard Dropout $8.6 Billion Richer After Listing Of His Softbank-Backed Company
Bom Kim sold his first venture fresh out of college. Fast forward two decades, and the serial entrepreneur is joining the ranks of the world's richest with the listing of his Coupang Inc.
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Nintendo Switch May See a New Model With Bigger Samsung OLED Display
Nintendo plans to unveil a model of its Switch gaming console equipped with a bigger Samsung OLED display this year, hoping the larger touchscreen can prop up demand in time for the holidays, people familiar with the plan said.
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Samsung Said to Consider $10-Billion Texas Chipmaking Plant
Samsung is considering spending more than $10 billion (roughly Rs. 73,015 crores) building its most advanced logic chipmaking plant in the US, a major investment it hopes will win more American clients and help it catch up with industry leader TSMC.
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PUBG Creator, Former Child Coding Prodigy, Plans IPO Worth Billions
Bluehole Inc., as Krafton was known as, released PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds, or PUBG, in 2017
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Virus Hunter Who Hardly Sleeps Shows The World How To Fight An Epidemic
As South Korea's coronavirus outbreak risked veering out of control, with infections rising thirty-fold in just ten days last month, the country's health authorities got an unexpected break. The secretive religious sect whose meetings were early vectors for spreading the virus had agreed to disclose the names of all 212,000 members -- critical info...
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Samsung Galaxy S11, Galaxy Fold Successor Said to Feature 108-Megapixel Camera, 5x Zoom Support
Samsung’s response to Apple’s much-improved iPhone 11 cameras is going to be a giant photographic arsenal strapped to the back of its 2020 flagship phones.
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Samsung Is Pouring $11 Billion Into Next-Generation Displays
Samsung's investment was presented as a move to reorganize the display industry while maintaining Samsung's global lead and South Korea's established dominance.
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JioHotstar Crosses 200 Million Paying Subscribers on IPL Frenzy
JioHotstar has increased its paying subscriber base to over 200 million, driven by multi-language live broadcasts of the hugely popular Indian Premier League cricket matches. To get so many paying subscribers just from India in such a short time was “pretty satisfying,” said Uday Shankar, vice chairman of JioStar.
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Disney Bets on Korean and Japanese Originals in Asia Growth Push
Disney is focusing on select Asian markets to help scale up the local subscriber base and draw international viewership, while cutting content investment in Southeast Asia. Its India operation merged with Reliance Industries’s media business to form a joint venture called JioStar.
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Samsung Aims to Introduce Affordable Foldable Phones to Challenge Apple's iPhone Range
Samsung Electronics is considering adding an affordable option to its portfolio of foldable phones, in a move to hasten adoption of the novel form factor. “We are trying to make a leap in our price positioning,” the chief of its mobile business, TM Roh, told Bloomberg News. “We are seriously considering the timing, but it is surely a difficul...
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South Korea Proposes Stronger Incentives, Bigger Tax Breaks to Boost Critical Chip Sector
South Korea plans to introduce bigger tax breaks for chip manufacturers in the country, a month after a law allowing for new incentives was passed. The country has been caught between the US and China in an escalating fight over critical semiconductors, which are used in a wide range of electronic devices from smartphones to missiles.
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Samsung Ends Galaxy Note, Bets Big on Foldables to Tackle iPhone
Samsung is making the biggest change to its smartphone strategy in years by reorganising around its big-selling Galaxy S and foldable Galaxy Z series. The company plans to discontinue its Note lineup of stylus-equipped phones and instead distribute that capability across its portfolio while pushing premium foldables in its challenge to Apple.
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Fortnite Row: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Blasts Apple, Google; Calls for Single App Store
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney renewed his attack on Apple and Google as the world’s dominant mobile duopoly before calling for a universal app store that works across all operating systems as the solution.
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He Built An $8.9 Billion Fortune. Then Trouble Began With A Fire
Bom Kim amassed a fortune at Coupang Inc., the Amazon of South Korea, that reached as much as $8.9 billion, and became the poster child of a new kind of wealth generation in the country.
-
Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch on a Global Level
Samsung Electronics warned it’s grappling with the fallout from a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally, becoming the largest tech giant to voice concerns about chip shortages spreading beyond the automaking industry.
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Harvard Dropout $8.6 Billion Richer After Listing Of His Softbank-Backed Company
Bom Kim sold his first venture fresh out of college. Fast forward two decades, and the serial entrepreneur is joining the ranks of the world's richest with the listing of his Coupang Inc.
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Nintendo Switch May See a New Model With Bigger Samsung OLED Display
Nintendo plans to unveil a model of its Switch gaming console equipped with a bigger Samsung OLED display this year, hoping the larger touchscreen can prop up demand in time for the holidays, people familiar with the plan said.
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Samsung Said to Consider $10-Billion Texas Chipmaking Plant
Samsung is considering spending more than $10 billion (roughly Rs. 73,015 crores) building its most advanced logic chipmaking plant in the US, a major investment it hopes will win more American clients and help it catch up with industry leader TSMC.
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PUBG Creator, Former Child Coding Prodigy, Plans IPO Worth Billions
Bluehole Inc., as Krafton was known as, released PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds, or PUBG, in 2017
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Virus Hunter Who Hardly Sleeps Shows The World How To Fight An Epidemic
As South Korea's coronavirus outbreak risked veering out of control, with infections rising thirty-fold in just ten days last month, the country's health authorities got an unexpected break. The secretive religious sect whose meetings were early vectors for spreading the virus had agreed to disclose the names of all 212,000 members -- critical info...
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Samsung Galaxy S11, Galaxy Fold Successor Said to Feature 108-Megapixel Camera, 5x Zoom Support
Samsung’s response to Apple’s much-improved iPhone 11 cameras is going to be a giant photographic arsenal strapped to the back of its 2020 flagship phones.
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Samsung Is Pouring $11 Billion Into Next-Generation Displays
Samsung's investment was presented as a move to reorganize the display industry while maintaining Samsung's global lead and South Korea's established dominance.
