{"id":750350,"date":"2013-05-08T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=496207"},"modified":"2013-05-08T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:30:54","slug":"soaring-profits-leave-samsung-with-a-40-billion-cash-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750350","title":{"rendered":"Soaring profits leave Samsung with a $40 billion cash pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/samsung-cash-pile-40-billion\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/jk-shin1.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Cash Pile $40 Billion\" title=\"Samsung Cash Pile $40 Billion\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Given that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/apple-samsung-smartphone-profit-q1-2013\/\">Samsung is one of only two smartphone vendors in the world to post significant profits<\/a>, it's not surprising that it has been accumulating a massive pile of cash that it can plug into research and development or even return to shareholders as part of increased dividend payments. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424127887323798104578454440307100754-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> notes<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung's<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/samsung-earnings-q1-2013-preannouncement-416757\/\">latest earnings report<\/a> shows that the company now has almost $40 billion in cash and cash equivalents, while its net cash position minus debt is around $28.5 billion. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/samsung-cash-pile-40-billion\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/13YvNDvlZdc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that Samsung is one of only two smartphone vendors in the world to post significant profits, it&#8217;s not surprising that it has been accumulating a massive pile of cash that it can plug into research and development or even return to shareholders as part of increased dividend payments. The Wall Street Journal notes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}