“Samsung Electronics is buying automotive electronics-maker Harman International Industries for $8bn (£6.4bn), as it makes a big push into connected car technologies,” BBC News reports. “Internet-connected cars will improve in-car entertainment, and be able to help with crash alerts and diagnosing engine problems. It will also be key for driverless technology. Samsung said automotive electronics was ‘a strategic priority.'”
“‘The vehicle of tomorrow will be transformed by smart technology and connectivity in the same way that simple feature phones have become sophisticated smart devices over the past decade,’ Young Sohn, Samsung’s president and chief strategy officer, said in a statement,” The Beeb reports. “Samsung generates the bulk of its revenues from its smartphone business, but is now looking for new areas of growth.”
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, wonder why? (smirk)
“Harman, which has its headquarters in Connecticut, makes products that are used in more than 30 million vehicles,” The Beeb reports. “The deal is expected to be completed in mid-2017. Harman’s chief executive, Dinesh Paliwal, will continue to run the company.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Buh-bye, Harmon.
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Exploding cars!
Mobile Munitions in all their forms a SamSplode spesh-she-ality.
Yes, I can agree with you.
Exploding cars!
Great, now anytime you go see a band in concert you’ll have the explosion risk. Many top concerts use JBL speakers and Crown amps, which Harman owns. http://pro.harman.com/
JBL – Junky But Loud – seems a perfect match for Samsung.
🙂
Sorry Samsung, but Sony beat you to speakers that Xplod decades ago XD
Oh yeah, Harmon. I remember them. They make in-dash cassette players and stuff.
Good fit for Samsung.
I brought a used lexus just because of the Mark Levinson sound system. I really enjoyed Harman Kardon (never own a Mark Levinson home theater) and JBL. Now if samsung does buy it, the Harman branded devices are the las I will ever posses.
Well there’s an early kick in the teeth to the concept of restoring the US to greatness again. In this particular case greatness is more Gangnam style I presume. Who’s next?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I hope you were a substantial shareholder. Because shareholders just got a really good deal. Time to sell and bail. So sorry to those any remaining employees left behind.
Harmons a lost cause been loosing money forever
Do you always make it up as you go along? Just say some crap and assume you will be believed? Or is the audience here you have zero respect for?
Harman has been extremely profitable for the last decade excluding an 16 month period in the middle of the great recession when the auto industry was essentially bankrupt.
I hate stupid especially extra stupid who just says BS to go along with the crowd. You are pathetic.
Net profits the last three years;
2016 – $361,734,000
2016 – $342,680,000
2016 – $234,692,000
Looks like 2016 was a particularly good year for them – three times over.
Sure was and those were the only two typos I made through all of 2016. What’s your count alananal?
halo world