Samsung Electronics' key M&A man returns; big deals in the offing

Samsung Electronics' key M&A man returns; big deals in the offing

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker and leading smartphone and electronics maker, has been absent from the mergers and a...

LG Elec, Microsoft, GE to collaborate for smart hospital

LG Elec, Microsoft, GE to collaborate for smart hospital

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with GE Healthcare Korea and Microsoft (MS) Korea to co...

LG CNS hosts Startup Day in Silicon Valley

LG CNS hosts Startup Day in Silicon Valley

LG CNS Co., an information technology service company under South Korean conglomerate LG Group, announced on Thursday that it held the Startup Day i...

Samsung heiress sells $326 mn worth of Samsung Elec shares

Samsung heiress sells $326 mn worth of Samsung Elec shares

Samsung Group heiress and Hotel Shilla Chief Executive Lee Boo-jin sold 441.2 billion won ($325.9 million) worth of Samsung Electronics Co. shares i...

LG Electronics seeks to sell global bonds, 1st time in 12 yrs

LG Electronics seeks to sell global bonds, 1st time in 12 yrs

LG Electronics Inc. is seeking to issue dollar-denominated bonds, its first global bond sale in 12 years, according to people with knowledge of the ...

Samsung Electronics stock likely to climb in Q2, analysts say

Samsung Electronics stock likely to climb in Q2, analysts say

South Korean analysts have recommended investors buy Samsung Electronics Co. stocks as the world’s top memory chipmaker, which reported higher...

Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, has introduced an artificial intelligence agent platform based on its own ixi AI technolog...

LG Group’s AI academy to foster young talent bears fruit

LG Group’s AI academy to foster young talent bears fruit

On April 6, at LG Inwhawon, called LG Academy in English, in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, 99 college students and twenty-somethings were wrestling wit...

LG Electronics logs record-high revenue in Q1 on B2B push

LG Electronics logs record-high revenue in Q1 on B2B push

LG Electronics Inc. raked in its largest-ever quarterly revenue in the first quarter of this year, maintaining upward momentum after a stellar 2023,...

LG’s $5.5 billion LFP, ESS battery plants in Arizona to kick off in 2026

LG’s $5.5 billion LFP, ESS battery plants in Arizona to kick off in 2026

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, said on Thursday its 7.2 trillion won ($5.5 billion) battery complex in Ari...

LG Chem, Ansan City to team up for waste vinyl recycling

LG Chem, Ansan City to team up for waste vinyl recycling

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has decided to recycle waste vinyl generated in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, into plastic raw materials. The company announc...

LG Uplus, Mobirix to jointly develop car infotainment

LG Uplus, Mobirix to jointly develop car infotainment

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the domestic mobile game developer Mobir...

LG Energy, GM’s 2nd Ultium Cells plant begins production in Tennessee

LG Energy, GM’s 2nd Ultium Cells plant begins production in Tennessee

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, said on Tuesday that the second plant of Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture ...

LG Electronics unveils UltraGear OLED gaming monitors

LG Electronics unveils UltraGear OLED gaming monitors

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Monday that it unveiled LG UltraGear gaming monitors that can switch resolution and refresh rate according to conte...

LG OLED TV's new theme: Empathetic, personalized AI

LG OLED TV's new theme: Empathetic, personalized AI

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s No. 1 OLED TV producer, defines artificial intelligence as empathetic intelligence for customers. On Wednesda...

LG Electronics spins off X-UP, 4 other in-house venture firms

LG Electronics spins off X-UP, 4 other in-house venture firms

LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it is spinning off five promising in-house venture firms as separate entities to strengthen South Korea’s...

LG CNS, Sinar Mas to form JV in Indonesia

LG CNS, Sinar Mas to form JV in Indonesia

LG CNS Co., an information technology service company under South Korean conglomerate LG Group, announced on Thursday that it signed an investment...

Samsung, Henckels co-develop AI Combo detergent course

Samsung, Henckels co-develop AI Combo detergent course

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with the global household and industrial goods company Henckels AG to introduce a d...

LG Group earmarks $74 bn for 5-year investment in Korea

LG Group earmarks $74 bn for 5-year investment in Korea

LG Group, South Korea’s No. 4 conglomerate, on Wednesday announced a plan to invest 100 trillion won ($74 billion) through 2028 in its future ...

LG Electronics named Energy Star Partner of 2024

LG Electronics named Energy Star Partner of 2024

LG Electronics Inc. has been named 2024 Energy Star Partner of the Year and Sustained Excellence by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a...

LG CNS to lead digital transformation at FPT in Vietnam

LG CNS to lead digital transformation at FPT in Vietnam

LG CNS Co., an information technology service company under South Korean conglomerate LG Group, will lead the digital transformation of FPT Group, a...

LG Uplus Sporki to be featured in Toyota's car Infotainment

LG Uplus Sporki to be featured in Toyota's car Infotainment

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Friday that its sports community platform Sporki will be featured in Toyota Connect, the U+Drive-based inf...

Samsung Electronics collects $4.3 bn in dividends from display unit

Samsung Electronics collects $4.3 bn in dividends from display unit

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is slated to receive about 5.64 trillion won ($4.3 billion) worth of dividends ...

LG injects $97 mn into Vista Equity’s fund for new tech investments

LG injects $97 mn into Vista Equity’s fund for new tech investments

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, injected $97 million into a fund run by Vista Equity Partners Management LLC for investme...

LG Chem to unveil carbon dioxide-based plastic in Bologna

LG Chem to unveil carbon dioxide-based plastic in Bologna

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday that it will unveil an eco-friendly plastic material derived from carbon dioxide at Cosmoprof Worl...

SK Hynix mass-produces HBM3E chip to supply Nvidia

SK Hynix mass-produces HBM3E chip to supply Nvidia

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s No. 2 memory chipmaker, began mass-producing HBM3E, the best-performing DRAM chip for AI applications, for the firs...

LG Chem reshuffles R&D unit to turn into EV materials maker

LG Chem reshuffles R&D unit to turn into EV materials maker

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest petrochemical company, is strengthening its research & development capabilities as it aims to transfor...

Samsung faces dubious suit every 5 days from US patent trolls

Samsung faces dubious suit every 5 days from US patent trolls

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is battling an increasing number of patent infringement litigation cases from US patent trolls, the ...

LG Elec expands workforce to enhance AI cyber security

LG Elec expands workforce to enhance AI cyber security

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is actively increasing its workforce to improve artificial intelligence cyber security...

Korea Zinc, LG Chem team up for US recycling business

Korea Zinc, LG Chem team up for US recycling business

Korea Zinc Inc., the leading global zinc and lead smelter, and LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top petrochemical producer, joined hands for the pl...

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