About 20% of the National Samsung Electronics Union walked off the job, protesting for higher pay and better working conditions. It’s the first time Samsung workers have gone on strike. The World’s host Carolyn Beeler talks about the strike and its significance with Geoffrey Cain.
Geoffrey Cain’s book, which talks about the company’s growth and corporate culture, will be published in February. Freelance reporter Geoffrey Cain, who authored a book on Samsung that is set to be published in February, speaks with a Hankyoreh reporter at an office in the Hannam neighborhood of Seoul on Nov. 21.
By Kim Pognee
HANKYOREH
Dec 28, 2017
Samsung said some of the statements related to Cain’s 2009 visit to a Samsung office were not true. In a recent interview with progressive newspaper Hankyoreh, Cain described a visit to Samsung eight years ago as a correspondent for the Global Post.
By Elizabeth Shim
UPI
Dec 5, 2017
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For years, Tim Cook insisted Apple could change China from the inside. Instead, China changed Apple.
The latest evidence? Apple spent billions developing cutting-edge electric vehicle battery technology with Chinese automaker BYD, only to watch its innovations become the cornerstone of BYD’s rise to global electric vehicle dominance. Apple walked away with nothing. China walked away with everything.
This isn’t just another story about corporate research and development gone wrong. It’s a cautionary tale about how even America’s most valuable company has become trapped in China’s web of technological control — and how that web is about to tighten even further.