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Samsung may be on track to achieve its ambitious sales target for the Galaxy S24 series. The new flagships broke pre-order records in several markets and continue to sell like hotcakes globally. Sales in the US are also at a record high in eight years, signaling a turn of fortune for the Korean firm. Galaxy S24 is selling like hotcakes in the US and everywhere else According to the Korean media, Samsung aims to sell more than 35 million units of the Galaxy S24 trio this year. The figure marks a double-digit growth over…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) play a critical role in the regional water cycle, weather, and climate. However, the characteristics of the lake-atmosphere interaction over the high-altitude lakes are still unclear. Recently, a joint research team from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese…

Earlier this month, Samsung published its earnings guidance for Q4 2022. In line with those numbers, the company has published its final Q4 2022 and FY 2022 results. The company’s profit has been the lowest in eight years, and that is due to the continued global economic downturn, rising costs, and lower demand for smartphones and other consumer electronics. Samsung Electronics’ revenue was KRW 70.46 trillion (around $57.21 billion) in the quarter ending December 31, 2022, which is an 8% drop compared to Q4 2021. The…

Samsung Electronics flagged on Friday its quarterly profit tumbled by two-thirds to an eight-year low as a weakening global economy hammered memory chip prices and curbed demand for electronic devices.The dismal profit estimate by the world's largest memory chip, smartphone and TV maker - a bellwether for global consumer demand - sets a weak tone for other technology firms' quarterly results.Samsung's profits are expected to shrink again in the current quarter, analysts said, after the South Korean company announced its…

A Spanish prosecutor is seeking an eight-year prison term for the Colombian superstar Shakira over a €14.5m (£3.8m) tax fraud case, a prosecutor’s office document has revealed.The singer, who has sold more than 80m records worldwide with hits such as Hips Don’t Lie, earlier this week rejected a settlement offer from the prosecutor’s office to close the case.She is accused of failing to pay taxes between 2012 and 2014, a period in which Shakira says she did not live in Spain.The prosecutor’s document, seen by Reuters,…

Alphabet reopened Google News in Spain, eight years after it shut down the service because of a Spanish rule forcing the company and other news aggregators to pay publishers for using snippets of their news.Madrid last year transposed European Union copyright rules, revamped in 2020, into legislation, allowing media outlets to negotiate directly with the tech giant. The move prompted an announcement from Google last year that it would re-open Google News the following year. "Today, on the global 20th anniversary of Google…

Alphabet reopened Google News in Spain on Wednesday, eight years after it shut down the service because of a Spanish rule forcing the company and other news aggregators to pay publishers for using snippets of their news.Madrid last year transposed European Union copyright rules, revamped in 2020, into legislation, allowing media outlets to negotiate directly with the tech giant.The move prompted an announcement from Google last year that it would re-open Google News in the following year."Today, on the global 20th…