Latest in Samsung

The book retailer’s shares are up 3.4% in early trading after it announced a plan to offer its software in Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablets, enabling Barnes & Noble to lessen its exposure to its Nook tablets that have struggled to keep up with rivals including Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle.  A 7-inch version of…

Consider this to be an upgrade to the Ultra High Definition programming deal that the companies announced earlier this year at International CES. At the time, Fox said that it would provide Samsung with a storage device, called the UHD Video Pack, that would include content from different studios including Fox’s <em…

Awards ceremony broadcasts may have been changed forever at last night's Oscars when Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie of herself and a dozen A-listers in the theater. She broke the record for most retweets – 3 million-plus and counting — causing a brief service issue with Twitter. "We just broke Twitter," DeGeneres…

This is part of Samsung‘s effort to help its gadgets stand out from the consumer electronics pack. By early 2015, owners of the company’s smart TVs, tablets and smartphones who watch certain TV shows will be able to access so-called second screen content produced by Mandalay Sports Media. The deal is interesting…

In this week’s podcast, Deadline Executive Editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom download the highlights from this week’s massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They look at Yahoo's splashy preview of its new tech, news and food sites with a presentation that reminded David L. of a network advertising…

Will television become more friend than foe for movie theaters? This announcement from Fandango at the International CES confab could help. The NBCUniversal-owned ticketing service says that by the end of March it will begin to offer movie trailers and what it calls “fully-embedded ticketing capabilities” for <a href="http://www.deadline.com/tag/samsung/"…

UPDATE, 4:25 PM: Michael Bay has taken to his blog to talk about walking offstage during a Samsung presentation at the CES confab today in Las Vegas. “Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES – I was about to speak for Samsung for this awesome Curved 105-inch UHD TV. I rarely lend my name to any products, but this one is…

This is becoming a theme at the International CES. Earlier today Netflix said that it will stream 4K content including the next season of House Of Cards to LG TV sets. Now Samsung is raising the stakes unveiling similar arrangements with Netflix, Comcast, Paramount, DirecTV and Amazon — part of its campaign to…

Add pay-as-you-go movie and TV service M-GO to the list of video streaming providers announcing at International CES their new ability to offer 4K programming to TV sets capable of handling the super-sharp picture quality. The DreamWorks Animation-Technicolor joint venture says it initially will provide 4K…

Last year Samsung spent more than $20M for movie theater ads, which accounted for 19% of National CineMedia‘s national Q3 revenue. But even with that expected decline, the cinema ad sales company’s results fell short of expectations. It reported net income of $13.7M, -18% vs the period last year, on revenues of…

“We have created something incredible,” Pranav Mistry, Head of Samsung‘s Think Tank Team, said at the unveiling today in Berlin. “Welcome to the future.” Sure, that’s grandiose. Still, Samsung’s Galaxy Gear looks intriguing for a first-generation device — introduced ahead of Apple’s expected launch of its iWatch. The…

The two electronics giants are angling to show off their new gadgets ahead of the introduction of new iPhones, iPads and other products from rival Apple, Bloomberg reports. Along with the Note III phone/tablet hybrid, Samsung's roster includes a wristwatch/smartphone hybrid to be called Galaxy Gear and powered by…