{"id":105627,"date":"2014-07-08T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=105627"},"modified":"2014-07-08T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:19:52","slug":"samsungs-profits-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/105627-samsungs-profits-slump.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s profits slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics estimated that its operating profit would plunge nearly 25 percent on year in the second quarter of 2014, hit by slowing smartphone sales and a strong won.<\/p>\n<p>Operating profit was estimated at 7.2 trillion won ($7.1 billion) for the April-June period, compared to 9.53 trillion won a year ago &#8211; the South Korean electronic giant&#8217;s third straight quarter of year-on-year decline.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More smartphone news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #364444;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #364444;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/105483-south-africas-most-popular-mobile-phones-1994-to-2014.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">South Africa\u2019s most popular mobile phones: 1994 to 2014<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #364444;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #364444;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/105251-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #364444;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #364444;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/105385-blackberry-z3-price-launch-date-in-sa.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">BlackBerry Z3 price, launch date in SA<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s profits have taken a knock for the third consecutive quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":97479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25159,7979,645],"class_list":["post-105627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-profit","tag-quicknews","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}