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Samsung posts first-ever quarterly loss

There's more gloomy financial news from the tech sector today with Samsung reporting its first-ever quarterly loss. The coffers of world's largest maker of memory chips sprang a leak in its fourth quarter under pressure of collapsing prices in memory and LCD displays as well as slowing demand from the global recession. Samsung' …

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Stephen Brown

LastV8Interceptor

18 trillion? what? can some more intelligent than me please explain these figures.

Thanks.

gabor
Paris Hilton

@LastV8Interceptor

so you can't read stuff in brackets and you find it difficult to type www.xe.com why?

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

trillion *won*, not trillion "pounds"

you're welcome

Anonymous Coward
Happy

so

this would be a good time to buy cheap memory and monitors then?

Ian Emery
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Coat

Question

Is this a metric trillion or an imperial one??

Or even worse, one of those American ones that bugger up maths?/

(A Billion USED to be a million, million; until the Yanks started waving it around as being 1,000 million).

Mines the XXXXXXXXXXL (Made in China)

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