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Activist shareholders want Samsung to stop hoarding cash

Activist shareholders want Samsung to stop hoarding cash

Activist investors have long had issues with how some of South Korea's largest family-run conglomerates operate. They routinely accuse the founding families of prioritizing their control over the empires instead of boosting shareholder value by paying dividends. Similar claims have been made against several Samsung entities in South Korea, with the latest move coming from […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 months ago
Generative AI comes to Google Maps on Android

Generative AI comes to Google Maps on Android

Google might have been late to the Generative AI party, but it is bringing some meaningful improvements to its products with Generative AI. After launching the Google Bard chatbot last year, the company is improving the Google Maps experience with Generative AI. These new AI features are currently only rolling out to Local Guides in […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
Samsung’s stylish The Frame TV gets new discount of up to $,1000

Samsung’s stylish The Frame TV gets new discount of up to $,1000

Over the past few years, The Frame proved to be Samsung's most popular lifestyle TV. The combination of a stylish design with interchangeable frames and high-end features has attracted many customers and even led to Samsung and Disney creating a limited edition model. If you always wanted to buy The Frame TV but it was […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
Zuckerberg gets $750 million cash per year from Meta’s first-ever dividend

Zuckerberg gets $750 million cash per year from Meta’s first-ever dividend

Meta (Facebook) co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranks as the world's fifth richest person with a net worth of over $140 billion. He's not sitting on $140 billion in cold, hard cash. His 13% stake in Meta accounts for the vast majority of his net worth, but that stake will soon get him over $750 […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 months ago
Samsung has a strategic plan to recover its memory chip fortune

Samsung has a strategic plan to recover its memory chip fortune

DRAM and NAND flash memories have contributed to Samsung's historic profitability over the past decade. However, a supply glut and falling prices have turned the tables on Samsung's memory chip fortunes, with the company reporting significant profit declines for several quarters straight. Things seem to be finally looking up for the company as it now […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 months ago
Google Translate gets Material You design for Conversation mode

Google Translate gets Material You design for Conversation mode

It has been at least a couple of years since Google introduced the Material You design language for Android. By now, the complete operating system and most of the stock apps have started using the Material You design language. However, some of its apps still use the older design language, including Google Pay. The company […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
Scared by Samsung, Apple confirms generative AI features coming this year

Scared by Samsung, Apple confirms generative AI features coming this year

Samsung has captured the public's attention by presenting the Galaxy S24 series as the first “AI phone” of its kind, even though there are other phones on the market that offer similar features. Samsung's marketing blitz isn't just to stand out from the Android crowd, rather, it's to show that the Galaxy S24 series does […]

  • By Adnan Farooqui
  • 9 months ago
Samsung signs multi-year deal with Qualcomm for Snapdragon chips

Samsung signs multi-year deal with Qualcomm for Snapdragon chips

Samsung used the Snapdragon chip in all its high-end phones last year. This year, though, the company used the Snapdragon chip only in the Galaxy S24 Ultra, while the Galaxy S24 and the Galaxy S24+ used Exynos chips in most countries. In the coming years, Samsung will keep using Snapdragon chips in its flagship phones, […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
Dimensity 9400 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 benchmarks set tall targets for Exynos 2500

Dimensity 9400 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 benchmarks set tall targets for Exynos 2500

Samsung is expected to launch the Exynos 2500 (tentative name) by the end of this year for the Galaxy S25 series. That chip will face a pretty tough challenge from rivaling chips, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The first set of benchmarks for those chips have leaked for the […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
Sony showcases 13 upcoming games for PS5, PS4, PSVR2

Sony showcases 13 upcoming games for PS5, PS4, PSVR2

Yesterday, Sony held the first PlayStation State of Play event of this year. At the 42-minute-long event, the company gave people a look at thirteen games coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation VR 2. Along with that, Sony also revealed the launch timeframe for some of those games. If you don’t want to […]

  • By Abid Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
New Samsung tech might contribute to lower iPhone sales in 2024

New Samsung tech might contribute to lower iPhone sales in 2024

This year, Apple might feel the brunt of the rise of AI technologies on mobile devices and the increasing popularity of foldable phones. The company has reportedly decreased shipments of key iPhone components for 2024 due to an expected drop in demand. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via Medium) says the Cupertino-based company adjusted its orders […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
Microsoft borrows Galaxy S24’s circle to search for Edge Copilot

Microsoft borrows Galaxy S24’s circle to search for Edge Copilot

Microsoft wants to borrow a Google-powered Galaxy S24 AI feature for its Copilot chatbot. As you may know, the Galaxy S24 introduced the Circle to Search AI tool that lets users circle anything on the screen to perform a quick Google search of the encircled object or text. Microsoft seemingly wants a piece of that. […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
Samsung might rerelease Galaxy Watch 4 and Tab S6 Lite in 2024

Samsung might rerelease Galaxy Watch 4 and Tab S6 Lite in 2024

Although Samsung has plenty of new and exciting devices planned for 2024, not to mention the already-released Galaxy S24 flagship series, the company might also refresh some of its older devices and rerelease them before the end of the year. We're talking about products such as the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Tab S6 Lite […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
Roon and Harman have a new Nucleus Titan server on the way

Roon and Harman have a new Nucleus Titan server on the way

One product that flew a bit under our radar at CES 2024 as we kept busy checking out Samsung's latest TVs and monitors is the Roon Nucleus Titan. Roon and Harman International, the latter of which is owned by Samsung, have developed a next-generation high-performance Nucleus server for audiophiles. The Roon Nucleus Titan, as it […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
Google Assistant Driving Mode for phones is shutting down this month

Google Assistant Driving Mode for phones is shutting down this month

Google launched an extremely useful feature called Android Auto a few years ago. It allowed you to use your Android smartphone as an all-in-one music playback and navigation device. It featured an easy-to-use and easy-to-view UI that was perfect for driving. That feature was then switched to Google Assistant, and the company is now shutting […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
Best Galaxy S24 Ultra trade-in deals for iPhone, Pixel, and Samsung phones

Best Galaxy S24 Ultra trade-in deals for iPhone, Pixel, and Samsung phones

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is the most powerful and feature-rich slab-type phone Samsung has ever released, and it is now available for purchase after a pre-order window that lasted a couple of weeks. If you're interested in upgrading from an older Galaxy phone to the S24 Ultra or switching brands, you could save a lot […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
New Quick Share is rolling out to all Galaxy phones and tablets!

New Quick Share is rolling out to all Galaxy phones and tablets!

Earlier this month, Google and Samsung revealed that they have merged their proprietary wireless file-sharing systems into a single entity. Google's Nearby Share was merged with Samsung's Quick Share, and the feature debuted on the Galaxy S24 series. Now, that new version of Quick Share is rolling out to other Galaxy smartphones and tablets. New […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
Make your Galaxy S24 wallpaper match the weather and time of day

Make your Galaxy S24 wallpaper match the weather and time of day

With the latest Galaxy S24 series running One UI 6.1, Samsung has enriched the user experience through a couple of new AI-powered wallpaper options. Previously, we overviewed the Generative wallpaper feature, but Samsung's flagships have yet another AI-powered wallpaper tool up their sleeve. It's called Photo Ambient Wallpaper. This new wallpaper type uses “advanced intelligence” […]

  • By Mihai Matei
  • 9 months ago
Samsung extends its OLED TV panel deal with LG

Samsung extends its OLED TV panel deal with LG

Last year, Samsung signed a historic deal with LG Display for its OLED TVs. Samsung's TV division decided to use LG Display's WRGB OLED panels in some of its OLED TVs, and that is a huge deal, as the two companies have been adversaries for a few decades. Now, they appear to have extended their […]

  • By Asif Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago
AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) is here to make games smoother

AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) is here to make games smoother

AMD has released a new Adrenalin Edition GPU driver. It carries version 24.1.1 and brings two big features, AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) and AMD Video Upscaling. What is AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF)? AMD Fluid Motion Frames is a frame-generation feature. It generates frames in games to increase the frame rates to offer a […]

  • By Abid Iqbal Shaik
  • 9 months ago