Samsung struggles to shake off claims its culture is akin to North Korea. “Samsung is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of the technology world,” says Geoffrey Cain, author of The Republic of Samsung, who drew the parallel with North Korea.
By Bryan Harris
Financial Times
Jan 31, 2018
Regardless of the trial’s outcome, Lee Jae-yong ‘s reputation as a corporate leader has been damaged, say some Samsung watchers.“In the trial you come away with the impression that he is incompetent or at least he didn’t know his own company,” said Geoffrey Cain, the author of a coming book about Samsung.
By Jeyup S. Kwaak and Paul Mozur
The New York Times
Aug 23, 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.