{"id":659672,"date":"2013-05-22T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=576019"},"modified":"2013-05-22T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:20:14","slug":"samsung-buys-major-stake-in-rival-smartphone-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659672","title":{"rendered":"Samsung buys major stake in rival smartphone maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/samsung-pantech-stake-10-percent\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/samsung-sign-239.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Pantech Stake\" title=\"Samsung Pantech Stake\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Samsung has reportedly made a major investment in rival South Korea-based smartphone maker Pantech.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/techscience\/2013\/05\/22\/2\/0601000000AEN20130522005400320F.HTML\"><em>Yonhap News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was first to report the news and it says <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> spent roughly $50 million for 10% of the company. Samsung&#8217;s motives are unclear, though the deal will reportedly &#8220;help further solidify bilateral cooperation in smartphone and other business areas.&#8221; Pantech is currently the No.3 phone maker in South Korea behind Samsung and LG, and the new investment makes Samsung the company&#8217;s third-largest shareholder behind Qualcomm and\u00a0Korea Development Bank.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yoTIWY0g4Os\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has reportedly made a major investment in rival South Korea-based smartphone maker Pantech.\u00a0Yonhap News\u00a0was first to report the news and it says Samsung spent roughly $50 million for 10% of the company. Samsung&#8217;s motives are unclear, though the deal will reportedly &#8220;help further solidify bilateral cooperation in smartphone and other business areas.&#8221; Pantech is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}