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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Panasonic has 100k+ more employees worldwide. Samsung has a lot of reach, Panasonic is also huge... bigger actually.
(bit off topic but just to clear this up)
But bigger than Samsung??? Yeah right.
Seems no one really knows how big Samsung is. =P

I wasn't just talking about Samsung Electronics division. (which is just a portion of Samsung) But even if we are talking about that division alone, according to Forbes report, in 2010, Samsung Electronics was ranked 55th and Panasonic is 444th (In 2009, Samsung Electronics was 47th and Panasonic was 89th) (Samsung Electronics division alone is worth more than 3x of Panasonic now)

But as I said, "Electronics" is just a portion of what Samsung does. (They do ships (2nd largest ship maker in the world such as oil tankers), Cars, Aviation, Engineering, Theme Parks, Hotels, IT Services (Called "SDS" which is bigger than Accenture), Insurance, Banks, Sports teams and about 20+ more stuff)

Quoting the wiki here - "In 2006, Samsung Group would have been the 35th largest economy in the world if ranked, larger than that of Argentina." (that's 5 years ago. It's obviously much bigger now as Samsung Electronics alone more than doubled in size/value between 2009/2010)

Anyways, I was actually interested in what Samsung was going to do with Bada OS. It's been very quiet. I was looking forward to see Bada 2.0 and seeing what they did with it. Considering they are full on using Android now in every mobile device they make, seems they gave up on it and it became the Maemo/Meego of Nokia.

Last edited by jakiman; 2011-05-25 at 02:46.