{"id":752713,"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.com\/index\/752713","title":{"rendered":"Samsung buys major stake in rival smartphone maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/samsung-pantech-stake-10-percent\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img 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's motives are unclear, though the deal will reportedly \"help further solidify bilateral cooperation in smartphone and other business areas.\" Pantech is currently the No.3 phone maker in South Korea behind Samsung and LG, and the new investment makes Samsung the company's third-largest shareholder behind Qualcomm and\u00a0Korea Development Bank.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yoTIWY0g4Os\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":288,"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-752713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39Ox","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752713","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}