And well be getting the inside track on marketing the world famous kew gardens. Its commercial boss tells us how the gardens funds one of the largest plant collections in the world. Today we want to know about your travel trials as ryanair profits take off, are you fretting about the prospect of disrupted flights over the summer hols . Let us know, just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. The heir to samsung, the worlds Biggest Smartphone maker, walks free as south korea Court Suspends his jail term for corruption. The Appeals Court upheld jay y lees bribery conviction but cut his prison sentence to a suspended term, ordering his immediate release. Lee, the vice chairman of samsung electronics, saw his sentence for charges including bribery and embezzlement, suspended so he does not have to serve time. Lee was convicted in connection with the sprawling Corruption Scandal that brought down former south korean president too. Why is it so significant and that a
Bailout bill has gotten underway in the last hour. A vote on that bill is due within the hour. Michelle carusocabrera standing by there where its 10 00 p. M. Local time in athens. And youve got a busy night ahead of you, michelle. Reporter yes, we sure do, bill. So yes, lets get everybody up to speed. There are crowds back in front of the parliament. Things are much calmer than they were about 15 minutes ago. The last ten minutes of president obamas discussion with reporters is when we started to hear explosions outside. Thats when we saw molotov cocktails being thrown. We werent surprised because we had seen some of the protesters show up dressed in black, wearing hoods, some of them carrying gas masks. Seemed to be a very, very small group. And we havent seen any violence up until now. We thought maybe tonight it could has been. And, indeed it did. You can see from the video were showing you, a round of fires lasted about 10 or 15 minutes. Right away. The tear gas came out right away
Sentiment. Weak pc demand sending revenue down 5 . But they buck the trend. The turn around strategy pays off as it defies a slow down in china by targeting the high end of the market. Welcome everyone to the show. Shares in apple fell in after hours trade after investors ignore the quarter. They focus on weaker than expected forecasts for revenue in the Fourth Quarter and there were some other reasons they turned sour on the stock. Iphone sales came in at 31 billion with shipments 3 billion below estimates. They also bundled other devices. The tech giant would only say june sales were higher than april or may but the lack of detail left some analysts speculating over the success of the newest gadget. The Earnings Report is also weighing on tech stocks here in europe. Investors are also shrugging off a 32 rise in Second Quarter profits from chip designer arm despite earnings being broadly in mind with expectations. Simon cigar spoke to cnbc earlier about a possible apple takeover. Ther
Screens, announcing two new today. Both have a 5. 7inch display, slightly bigger than the 65inch display on the iphone plus, and they work with a new mobile payment is to, but will these products help samsung take on apple and rising chinese competitors . A Strategy Analytics director who covers smartphones joins us be a skype from london and we also have these of posco global head of innovation. Visa is partnering with samsung on its mobile payment system. We also have the set we global head ofs innovation. The phones are almost identical, except the edge has this wraparound screen. The note has a pen. What stands out to you . Out is thelly stands wraparound screen. Two screens in one phone. A big screen on the front and a smaller screen down the side. For the note device, what really stands out is the pen device, which you can use for functionality like writing in businesso pdfs use. Two very differentiated phones. Big unveiling. We heard from the head of mobile. Take a look at what
Is this going to make people switch . The iphone user is the iphone user. Rarely does the iphone user go back to and sung or htc rarely does the iphone user go back to samsung or htc. Samsung needs to care more about putting htc and motorola to pasture and staving off people like lenovo and xiaomi. Emily i want to talk about samsung pay because it is different from apple pay. How is it different . Its available in a lot more places. Jim the user interface is similar to what you with the on an apple pay device. The major difference is they bought a company several weeks ago and incorporated the new technology in the stone that is unique to samsung that allows it to be used at virtually any terminal in the u. S. The of the via the magstripe reader. Emily whats interesting is they are not charging fees for banks, though apple does. Is this something that could lead to a renegotiation of visas deal with apple . We introduced a program that effectively says if someone wants to connect to vi