Friday, January 10, 2014

Samsung's Quest to Win the High-Tech Kitchen Wars



Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The world's largest electronics manufacturer has already dominated televisions, smartphones and tablets. Appliances are next. Samsung has made an explicit goal to be the largest major-appliance maker by 2015 -- a tall order given the competition...but with an aggressive push in the U.S., which includes new products that aim to shake up the kitchen with higher-tech devices, the company is optimistic it can be successful in appliances in the same way that it snuck up on the smartphone industry. Bloomberg Businessweek's Sam Grobart reports.(Source: Bloomberg)