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It is a proper noun and refers to a South Korean multinational conglomerate company that specializes in electronic products. You can use the word 'samsung' when referring to the company itself, its products, or its services. For example, "I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy phone" or "Samsung is a major player in the technology industry".
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samsung
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A phone manufactured by the Korean conglomerate company .
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But how does that put it ahead of Apple or Samsung, where the latter has announced a $100m fund to develop its "internet of things" (IoT) strategy, and Apple has offered HomeKit, a platform for connecting IoT devices to iOS?
Some might instead think it's a startup that aims to undermine Samsung, previously the sales leader in China, by offering phones with the same specifications as the South Korean giant, but at lower prices.
Strategy Analytics places Samsung first with 79.2m smartphones, Apple in second with 39.3m, Xiaomi in third with 18m and LG in fourth 16.8m out of a total 320.4m smartphones sold in the third quarter.
Samsung is close to completing its palatial glass box in San Jose, Amazon is planning to bestow Seattle with a cluster of jungle-filled biospheres, while Google is reviving the 1970s dream of sweeping the world beneath an undulating transparent tent.
To date smart TV manufacturers such as Samsung, Panasonic and LG have struck individual deals to make their catch-up TV services available, meaning viewers can only access certain services on particularinternet-enabled sets.
The increase in sales, which produced a 150% rise in revenues to 33bn yuan renminbi (£3bn), means Xiami devices outsold Samsung in China for the second time in April, according to market research from Kantar, with its budget RedMI device the top selling smartphone in the country.
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All3Media, producer of Skins, Midsomer Murders, The Cube and Peep Show, has struck a deal to launch a video-on-demand app on internet-connected Samsung and LG smart TVs.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which outsold Samsung and Apple in its domestic market at Christmas, is expanding to 10 new countries as it races larger rivals to flood emerging economies with low-cost gadgets.
Samsung and Apple agreed to drop lawsuits outside of the US in August after cases spanned multiple countries including Germany, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan and Australia.
That would give it a shot at the more quickly growing low-end market, though the high-end market – where growth has almost stalled – is dominated by Apple and Samsung.
Xiaomi is valued at $10bn, sold 7m devices last year and is on track to sell 20m in 2013; for comparison Apple sold 125m phones in the 2012 financial year, and Samsung 700m, according to Strategy Analytics.
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