SEOUL -- Things looked bright for Samsung Electronics in 2016. The company had just announced South Korea's biggest-ever corporate takeover. Halfway around the world the future U.S. president was also using a Galaxy smartphone to tweet scathing attacks against the company's archrival Apple.
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