Exploding Phones Aren't Jay Y.'s Big Problem
From smartphones to chips to non-hardware businesses, the incoming board member faces an array of smoldering fires.
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As if he wasn't already one of the world's most powerful tech executives, Lee Jae Yong is set to become a whole lot more powerful.
While Jay Y.'s nomination to the board of Samsung Electronics comes amid the Note 7 battery crisis -- inviting obvious and trite connections between the two -- it's really no surprise that the scion of South Korea's largest business empire should be joining the directors' table.