Samsung predicts 37% profits fall

Samsung Electronics has forecast a 37.4% fall in quarterly operating profit from a year earlier.

In its pre-earnings guidance, the firm forecast an operating profit of 5.2tn Korean won ($4.74bn; £3.14bn) for the three months to December.

Analysts had expected an operating profit guidance of about 5tn won.

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports from the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the prospects for Samsung in 2015.