Ratan Tata was one of the world's most influential industrialists yet he never appeared on any list of billionaires. He controlled over 30 companies that operated in over 100 countries across six continents yet lived an unpretentious life. Ratan Naval Tata, who died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night at the age of 86 years, enjoyed a perhaps unique status -- a corporate titan who was considered a 'secular living saint' with a reputation for decency and integrity.
An employee of Foxconn Technology Group jumped to death from a building at the company's plant in Shenzhen on Tuesday, adding one more to the latest in a string of such deaths, official Xinhua newsagency reported.
Brazilian soccer legend Pel has sued Samsung Electronics Co for at least $30 million, alleging the Korean company improperly used a look-alike in an advertisement that ran in the New York Times without permission.
China's Xiaomi unveiled on Tuesday its new flagship Mi 4 smartphone, aimed squarely at the premium handset market dominated by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
The company is already setting up shop elsewhere in Asia in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
For the first time, the company will use Intel chips.
With their hundreds of years of watch making experience, Swiss watchmakers can afford to take a long view of technological fads and fashions.
Will the Samsung Galaxy Tab S give the latest iPad a run for its money? It seems so, says Shruti Puri.
J.K. Shin received a $5.8 million compensation package last year.
Judge rejected Apple's request for a permanent sales ban in the US against some older Samsung smartphones.
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc unveiled a curved smartphone on Monday in a move to catch up bigger rival Samsung Electronics Co.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible - even unbreakable - screens.
Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution, which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs.
Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch works as an accessory to its market-leading Galaxy smartphone, with a small screen offering basic functions such as photos, hands-free calls and instant messaging.
Apple may launch two new models this year - an upgrade to iPhone 5 and also a cheaper version of the phone.
Lenovo Group, the Chinese technology company that earns about 80 percent of its revenue from personal computers, is betting it can also be a challenger to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc in the smartphone market.
Will focus on aggressively expanding its storage offering.
Reviewers go gaga over the smartphone technology.
A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from criminals and snoopers seeking access.
Shipping will start fall.
Samsung can make life difficult for Apple if it tramples the latter's supply.
The new phone will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed.
Samsung premiered its Galaxy S4, which sports a bigger display and unconventional features such as gesture controls, as the South Korean titan challenges Apple Inc on its home turf.
The figures make it the fastest selling smartphone.
The Samsung device will perform many of the tasks of a smartphone.
Some analysts feel that the company is trading margins for volumes.
LCD screens were expected to slowly fade and die, giving way to lighter, thinner and tougher organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels in everything from smartphones to televisions. But LCD is refusing to go quietly as its picture quality keeps getting better.
It will offer steep educational discount on Series 5 Chromebooks from Samsung Electronics Co.
Mobile carriers requested the company for a US launch.
The lawsuit was unlikely to have deprived Lee of his control over Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips.
The company, which sells more phones than Samsung in China, aims to sell 1 million smartphones in India next financial year.
Of the top five vendors, only Apple lost market share, while LG Electronics Inc, Huawei and ZTE Corp making incremental gains.
While Samsung and Apple remain the leaders, LG pushed HTC to the fourth spot becoming the world's No. 3 smartphone maker.
Apple, returning the offensive, could roll out a smaller, cheaper "iPhone Mini" in 2014.
US District Court Judge Lucy Koh also denied Samsung's request for a new trial
Handset manufacturers are drawing up big plans for large display phones. Bigger than smartphone and smaller than tablet - phablet is going to be the buzzword this year in mobile space.
With the launch of low-cost devices running on Google Inc's Android platform by local firms, sales of tablets and smartphones have grown rapidly in the last two years.
Google Inc said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company.
Loading an app required the watch to pull tremendous amounts of data from iPhones.
The new phone offers better hardware including a faster processor, a higher quality screen and improved cameras.
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