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Samsung Mobile's CEO received a $5.8-million salary in 2013, Apple's Tim Cook "just" $4.25 million

Posted: 31 Mar 2014, 08:49, by Peter K.

Have you ever wondered how much money do the high-ranking executives of the major smartphone manufacturers make a year, exactly? Well, the largest phone company in terms of volumes at the moment, Samsung, just revealed some inside information about the salaries of its CEOs.

Apparently, J. K. Shin, the current CEO and President of Samsung Mobile, received a $5.8-million paycheck back in 2013, the South Korean company revealed. This puts him well above Tim Cook, the CEO of Samsung's biggest rival – Apple. Cook's compensation for last year was roughly $4.25 million, a little more compared with his $4.17-million salary for 2012.

Some other high-ranking Samsung executives, such as Vice chairman Kwon Oh-hyun and co-CEO B. K. Yoon, are well-paid, too – in 2013, they received roughly $6.35 and $4.77 million, respectively.

These is the first time Samsung discloses such information after the regulations in South Korea got changed several months ago. The Korean companies with executives that receive more than $469,500 (500 million won) annually are now required to detail information about their paychecks in the business filings and their financial reports.

Samsung cooks up new color options for the

Galaxy Note 3

By Manthan Gupta | November 29, 2013 12:09 PM

The Galaxy Note 3 may be no Moto X, but Samsung still provides its users with plenty of options to help customize the Android’s look. Besides a whole rainbow of colors available for official cases, the phone itself is offered in three different shades: white, black, and pink. Between all the possible combinations of phones and cases, that’s a lot of choices to consider. Now we get word that even more variety is on the way, with Samsung revealing a pair of new Note 3 color options.

First up, we have rose gold, which looks a lot like the existing white Note 3, but with a bunch of new gold accents. You’ll see those on the phone’s rear logo, all the trim pieces, and all along the handset’s edge.

If that existing pink choice just wasn’t bold enough for you, you’ll definitely want to check out the new bold red Note 3. Like the pink before it, this is all-around color, even reaching the phone’s face (which all too often goes overlooked when introducing new colors).

While this all looks very official, showing up on Samsung’s site for Argentina, we’re not sure just yet about how the new colors might arrive. We’ve heard that the red Note 3 may go up for sale in early January, with the rose gold model following a couple weeks later. Eventually both should be available in most markets, though there may be some periods of exclusivity during that roll-out that may mean some nations/carriers see the phones before others.

Source: Samsung Argentina
Via: GSM Arena