Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: Bigger, better, longer lasting. This is the most sophisticated Android phone ever made September 14, 2018 The latest phone in Samsung’s Note series is all about marginal gains. The screen has grown from 6.3 inches to 6.4 inches, the battery has been boosted to 4,000mAh, and the storage options to one whole terabyte, a record-breaking memory capacity that, for phones, was pure hyperbole only a few years ago. Like saying you [...]
More of the same from Apple? September 11, 2018 Earlier this year Apple made history in becoming the first US company to achieve a $1trn valuation, a level it maintained when it crossed above $207 a share last month. Since then the share price moved up to as high as $229.67 earlier this month, before embarking on a four-day slide prompted by some profit-taking, [...]
Exclusive: Asian buyer nears £425m deal for Commerzbank HQ September 2, 2018 Commerzbank’s London HQ is set to be sold in a deal worth almost £500m to an undisclosed Asian buyer later this week, City A.M. understands. An agreement for 30 Gresham Street, which was put on the market by Samsung Life Insurance earlier in the summer, is reportedly nearing its final stages, as the burgeoning Asian demand [...]
Samsung’s super-powered Galaxy Note 9 is back, but has it made enough progress? August 22, 2018 The supersized Galaxy Note series of phones first appeared in 2011, and with each subsequent version the professional-focused device has loaded more and more features into its huge frame. If the Galaxy S9 is the Bugatti Veyron of the phone world, the Note 9 is the Range Rover. If a work horse and a kitchen [...]
Flying cars, AI and blockchain: These are the top tech trends in Gartner’s 2018 Hype Cycle August 20, 2018 Artificial intelligence (AI), self-driving cars and distributed ledger technology – otherwise known as blockchain – are among this year’s emerging technology trends, though some have moved closer to the so-called trough of disillusionment. Research firm Gartner’s annual hype cycle, which tracks where tech trends are on their journey from an idea to mainstream usage, today determined driverless [...]
The Asus Zenfone AR is the first augmented reality focused smartphone, but is the software there to back it up? August 16, 2018 Whether or not you give two flying toots about virtual and augmented reality, the complex hardware needed to power the perpetually re-emerging technology has, over the last few years, fallen into alignment with that of high-end phones. Neither Samsung’s Gear VR nor Google’s Daydream headsets come with their own displays built in. Instead they’re built [...]
Bad Apple: Erdogan threatens iPhone boycott after spat with US August 14, 2018 Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a boycott of iPhones and other American electronic products yesterday as tensions between the two countries escalated. Erdogan remained defiant amid what he called an “economic war” with the US after Washington imposed punitive sanctions on Ankara. “Whatever we buy from abroad we are going to produce here in [...]
City deals spurred by record year of South Korean investment August 12, 2018 South Korean investors have pumped record levels of cash into London’s commercial property market over the last six months in fresh evidence of burgeoning Asian demand for City buildings. Office investment into the UK from South Korea reached £1.1bn in the first half of 2018, doubling last year’s total level of £530m in the whole [...]
The Galaxy Note 9, a smart speaker, and a partnership with Spotify: Here’s what happened at Samsung’s Unpacked event | City A.M. August 9, 2018 A new phone, a new watch, a new speaker. Samsung unveiled some fresh shiny things for you to spend your money on at its Unpacked event in New York this afternoon, and here’s a breakdown of the bits you need to know. The Galaxy Note 9 So the 6.4-inch Galaxy Note 9 underwhelmed most Samsung [...]
Samsung to plug $160bn into new technology in major growth push | City A.M. August 8, 2018 Samsung will boost its investment into tech businesses by $160bn (£123.6bn) over the next three years, in an effort to prop up South Korea’s place in industry while advancing its profit. Samsung Electronics will primarily fund $22bn of that investment to underpin research into artificial intelligence (AI), 5G connectivity, electronic components for automotives and biopharmaceuticals. [...]