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UPDATED, 8:25 PM: Lee Jae-yong, the powerful South Korean businessman known as the de facto head of Samsung, will be released from jail on Friday, South Korea’s Ministry of Justice has announced. Lee was arrested last year after a warrant was filed, citing charges of market manipulation and accounting fraud. The Seoul…

NBCUniversal’s Peacock is filling in a significant hole in its distribution map, setting an agreement with Samsung, the No. 1 maker of smart TVs. The streaming service, which launched last spring before going national in the summer of 2020, will go live on Samsung starting Tuesday. Samsung said last December its…

The vice chair and heir of Samsung will be back behind bars after a bribery and embezzlement sentence handed down by a South Korean appeals court, clouding the future leadership of the tech giant. Lee Jae-yong was taken into custody for a two-and-a-half year term – the latest development in a three year-plus legal…

Samsung Electronics America and Amazon-owned Twitch have set a one-year mobile gaming partnership centered on Twitch Rivals North America, a series of online competitions. The Samsung Galaxy will exclusively host regular mobile gaming challenges and events. The companies formalized the agreement in a live Twitch…

Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung Electronics who guided the corporation to becoming the world's biggest producer of smartphones, televisions and memory chips, has died. He was 78. Lee died Sunday, according to a Samsung statement. He had been hospitalized since a heart attack in 2014, and was treated for lung…

If you needed reminding why Britain’s biggest broadcasters are stacking their eggs in a BritBox-shaped basket, then look no further than ITV’s third-quarter earnings this week. Tucked away in a table was a figure not mentioned elsewhere in the press release: the revelation that ITV’s total viewing hours fell by 700M…

Intelligent assistants are coming soon to a television screen near you. Several of the world’s leading television manufacturers announced at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that they would open their devices to Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Samsung Electronics, the most successful television-maker…

Samsung Electronics said it will offer iTunes app on some of its internet-connected smart TVs beginning this spring, in a remarkable announcement for two companies that were locked in a bruising seven-year-long patent battle over whether Samsung copied Apple’s iPhone. The iTunes Movies and TV Shows app will be…

This may sound a little geeky, but could become important as television sets offer visually rich High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. Fox says today that it’s teaming with Panasonic and Samsung Electronics to create what they call “an open, royalty-free dynamic metadata platform,” tentatively called HDR10+. Translation…

South Korea’s ongoing political crisis continues as Cho Yoon-sun, the country’s cultural minister, was arrested by prosecutors due to suspected abuse of power. Among the other accusations brought against the minister, Cho is accused of drawing up a blacklist against artists and entertainers who criticized Park…

A warrant is being sought for the arrest of Lee Jae-yong, heir to Samsung and son of the current company chairman on multiple charges Including bribery in a case linked to the country’s ongoing political scandal that caused the impeachment of President Park Geung-hye. Lee will face a judge this week to determine if…

Samsung kicked off its annual CES product presentation and sales pitch today by acknowledging the gorilla in the room: its exploding Note 7 phones. The company is investigating what happened and will “make sure it doesn't happen again,” Samsung America COO Tim Baxter says. It’s also “recommitting to our customers in…