Samsung is cooking up its own social network, which refers in internal employees via the name "Samsung Facebook". An appellation which largely reflects the ambition of the Korean ...
Nothing seems able to stop that Samsung is fighting on all fronts. Korean occupies the top of the podium on the market of mobile telephony, it produces some of the best TVs on the market and has just launched its service with its Music Hub Galaxy S III in order to compete with Apple and its iTunes or Spotify. His next target? That seems to be Facebook. Indeed, an employee group at the Korea Times has unveiled a social network was slowly taking shape, and that his nickname in-house was none other than "Samsung Facebook".
In the words reported in the Korean newspaper, Samsung wants to extend the possibilities of sharing media with different types of devices that can connect to the internet which would be found among cameras, televisions and Blu-ray. And if the manufacturer is probably its products at first, it's a service he would also like to see happen on other brands. A kind of big hub platform eventually.
Based on Amazon EC2, the cloud of the merchant service, the social network could also draw on Family Story, the social platform that Samsung already offers Internet and TVs. The new network, which has so far not officially known, is scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2013 at the earliest.
