Samsung is said to be going great guns on the Internet of Things front. It’s tech company SmartThings has hired former Google executive Dora Hsu as its chief platform officer. Samsung co-CEO BK Yoon pledged last month to spend US $100 million to develop an open framework through which connected devices like fitness trackers and home appliances can communicate.
Hsu’s job, it is said, will involve building the business and infrastructure to develop SmartThings’ app store model.
Samsung has made a huge bet on connecting all of its devices in the IoT. It had acquired SmartThings last year towards that.
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(Correction: The first headline to this article had read: Samsung’s SmartThings gets new CEO, which has now been corrected to: Samsung’s SmartThings gets new chief platform officer.The error is regretted. – Editor)
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