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Samsung Group fined $340,000 for damaging HTC products through bogus comments
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoOn one hand that's a big fine. On the other Samsung's marketing budget runs to several billion dollars so they're not really going to notice it.
- reustle 13y agoExactly. We need to see more actions against these companies except simple fine which they don't notice.
- pessimizer 13y agoIt's a very big fine for me, a big fine for my local barbeque restaurant, but a rounding error for Samsung. Samsung probably writes off more than 340k yearly for office supply shrinkage.
- TomGullen 13y agoTotal scum bag move. No respect for any corporation that does this.
- ajross 13y agoNot to argue in their favor, but honestly reading the headline and comments like this one I was expecting a more serious and dire allegation than ... astroturfing. I mean it's bad, but large corporations get caught doing this nonsense routinely. It only becomes a "scum bag move" in the context of a bigger geek platform flame. Honestly this doesn't belong on the front page.
- gibwell 13y agoDo you think Google, or Apple AstroTurf?
- unclebucknasty 13y agoHow about, it's just wrong?
- MikusR 13y agoIt's Taiwan Samsung Electronics not the Korean one.
- confluence 13y agoOh the perversions of capitalism and maximising shareholder value. All is fair in love and free markets, especially cheating (see what I did there?). This is why we have regulations. It's always easier to cheat than it is to improve. The fine should've been much larger though.