Why Samsung Wants A Cloud Company

Samsung Electronics said it would buy Joyent for an undisclosed sum. Jonathan Cheng explains why the Korean tech giant wants the U.S. cloud-services firm.

Jun 20th, 2016

Samsung Electronics said it would buy Joyent for an undisclosed sum. Jonathan Cheng explains why the Korean tech giant wants the U.S. cloud-services firm.

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