Welcome to another weekly roundup of the latest Tizen news from the Tizen Experts Team. Below you will find all the events for the week ending  25 June 2017, listing the week's articles by category. Remember, if you want to join our weekly mailing list, you can do so by filling out the form at the end of this article.

Smart Phone

• FaceBook Messenger App gets massive feature update for all Tizen smartphones, version 99.0.0
• Xender partnership gets 150,000 downloads and counting
• Legendary Heroes RPG - PREMIUM, BECOME THE NEW LEGEND!!
• Super Soccer Champs football game now on Tizen Stores (FREE this June) 
• Grand Gangster Vice Crime 3D, DON'T GET CAUGHT!!!
• Download Funny Tube App for unlimited fun in your free time

Smart Watch

• Refurbished w/ Rubber Band Samsung Gear S2 (Verizon) watch
• Wearables market continues to grow in the Middle East and Africa
• Samsung Gear Manager receives an update to Gear S Plugin, now version 2.2.03.17061361
• Amazon UK Now Offering the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier for Only £255.50, with FREE Delivery
• Spotify app set to include offline playback in Samsung's Gear S3
• Samsung patents a case for wireless charging of Gear S3 with phone 

Smart TV

• IntuiFace for the development of Tizen and IoT billboard applications
• QLED TV Accessory Design Competition to be hosted by Samsung, €30,000 up for grabs
• The Frame, Samsung's artistic TV released in South Korea

Smart Home

• Deal Alert: Get 30% off a SmartThings Hub
• Samsung launches five models of refrigerators and offers robust portfolio for the Brazilian consumer

News

• Eid Wallpapers Backgrounds for Galaxy Gear / Gear 2 / Neo / S / S2 / S3 / Z1 / Z2 / Z3/ Z4 / TM1
• Samsung Pay Solutions for ATMs introduced by RAKBANK
• Exynos i T200: Samsung announces mass production of its first Exynos-branded IoT Solution
• Sberbank has introduced mobile application function cards to connect to Samsung Pay
• Samsung acquires VRB VR app studio for $5.5M
• Samsung Tizen 4.0 OS evolves as the IoT Ecosystem expands
• Samsung Electronics to make the highest operating profit worldwide for the second quarter of 2017
• Samsung Pay now available to HSBC, First Direct & M&S Bank Cardholders
• Samsung Pay clinches three awards at Payments and Cards Summit 2017
• Landmark stores in UAE and India now accepts Samsung Pay

Developer

• Gear Watch Designer now updated to version 1.4 Beta
• Using ARTIK to create a modern Smart Hotel - Tizen Developer Conference 2017

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