Samsung Electronics has bought Boxee

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Samsung Electronics has confirmed its purchase of Boxee on Wednesday for its smart TVs. 

Samsung plans to use this acquisition as a way to improve user experience. Many have complained about Samsung's smart TVs being difficult to use. Samsung will be acquiring not only assets but also talent from its purchase of Boxee; Samsung says it will keep about 40 of Boxee'e employees after the purchase. Boxee started out offering open-source media software. Eventually, it stopped to focus on selling its own device with its software. It is likely that this software will find itself on Samsung's smart TVs in the near future. Boxee's system has been very popular and should improve the ease of use of the smart TVs. 

Boxee was looking for funding, initially, and switched gears a few months ago to look for a potential buyer. This offer is lower than what Boxee wanted, but the start-up says, in a letter posed on their website, that they are excited to be a part of shaping the future of TV. They also wanted to let their users know they are working to make sure there isn't a huge disruption for their devices and thank them for their continued support over the last six years. 

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Apple leads As The Top US Smartphone Maker

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The US smartphone market leads, was given to Apple according to news source as as Apple has a gain of 14 percentage expansion in subscriber between  January and April.
Apple regain and capture a lead market share of sizeable 39.2 percentage in Original Equipment Manufacturer  Sector within 3 months of market calculations.
Since the release of iphone 5, the iphone 5 great sales in volume worldwide has given a huge smartphone boom to Apple.
Apple leads other smartphone rival markers with a huge market percentage, Samsung had 22 percentage market share which was 0.6 percentage points upward, HTC had 8.7 percentage, Motorola came third with 8.3 percentage, LG scored fourth, the Korea company has a market share of 6.9 percentage.
The entire US people with smartphone from January to April 2013 is now 138.5 million people.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 has set a World Record Sales

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In just one month, the Samsung Galaxy S4 can boast over 10 million sales. 

It's been a good moth for Samsung. After the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4, users went crazy for it. It was launched on April 27, and less than a month later the phone had set a new world record. Who held the record prior to this? Samsung, of course, not surprisingly with its Galaxy S3. That record had been hitting the 10 million sales mark within 50 days, a time which the S4 almost cut in half. "On behalf of Samsung, I would like to thank the millions of customers around the world who have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S4," stated Samsung chief executive J.K. Shin. 

On the official Samsung blog, the company celebrates with a post entitled "Galaxy S4 Hits 10 Million Milestone in First Month." The blog announced more rollouts in additional countries as well as new colors coming for the device, including "Blue Arctic and Red Aurora, followed by Purple Mirage and Brown Autumn." The closest rival of the S4, the HTC One, sold 5 million units within its first month, claiming only half of the sales of Samsung. This places Samsung in a very comfortable lead for the time being. It is also rumored that Samsung is developing a "Galaxy S4 Active" which will be hyper-durable, but there is as of now no official word from Samsung on this model.  Retweet this story