SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its fourth-quarter net profit surged a stunning 40 percent, thanks to strong demand for flat panel TVs and semiconductors.
South Korea's biggest company and the world's largest memory chip maker said it earned 2.56 trillion won (US$2.6 billion; euro2.2billion) in the quarter through December, up from 1.83 trillion won in the same period a year ago.
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