SEOUL: Samsung Electronics, which has vaulted the value chain on the strength of its hardware, will go out and buy mobile content providers, a senior executive told Reuters, to compete with Apple, Google and Amazon.com in a global digital music market worth nearly US$9bil (RM27bil).
The South Korean electronics giant has muscled its way to global leadership in TVs, smartphones, chips and display screens — packing internally sourced state-of-the-art components into consumer gadgets — but software remains a weak link.