{"id":1047,"date":"2021-04-05T12:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/05\/lg-to-pull-out-of-mobile-phone-market\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:13:43","slug":"lg-to-pull-out-of-mobile-phone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/05\/lg-to-pull-out-of-mobile-phone-market\/","title":{"rendered":"LG to pull out of mobile phone market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea firm promises service and software support as it shifts focus to more profitable businesses<\/p>\n<p>South Korean electronics manufacturer LG has decided to wind down its mobile phones unit after admitting defeat in the global smartphone market.<\/p>\n<p>LG said on Monday it had made a \u201cstrategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector\u201d to focus on growing businesses such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/jan\/03\/uk-carmakers-have-three-years-to-source-local-electric-car-batteries\">supplying electric car parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/05\/lg-to-pull-out-of-mobile-phone-market\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4bb464daa6fd61b506b5bf9ada29e259feec4b98\/0_166_4822_2892\/master\/4822.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=45f130718de1ae83ecb60a49f49f588f\" title=\"LG to pull out of mobile phone market\" \/>South Korea firm promises service and software support as it shifts focus to more profitable businesses<br \/>\nSouth Korean electronics manufacturer LG has decided to wind down its mobile phones unit after admitting defeat in the global smartphone market.<br \/>\nLG said on Monday it had made a \u201cstrategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector\u201d to focus on growing businesses such as supplying electric car parts. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea firm promises service and software support as it shifts focus to more profitable businesses South Korean electronics manufacturer LG has decided to wind down its mobile phones unit after admitting defeat in the global smartphone market. LG said on Monday it had made a \u201cstrategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/05\/lg-to-pull-out-of-mobile-phone-market\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LG to pull out of mobile phone market<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}