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HTC has sold part of its smartphone team to Google as it seeks to turn around its business.
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Monday 30 July 2012
AT&T to cut HTC One X price by half, says paper
AT&T will more than halve the contract price of HTC's One X smartphone sold through its channels from US$199 to US$99 starting July 30, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Monday 30 July 2012
Strong demand for smartphones in 2Q12 continues to drive the worldwide mobile phone market, says IDC
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 1% on year to 406 million units in the second quarter of 2012, as Samsung Electronics and Apple shipped almost half of the world's smartphones,...
Wednesday 25 July 2012
HTC adjusts workforce
HTC has been adjusting human resources in its production, R&D, and sales teams. Industry sources believe corporate restructuring is necessary as HTC's sales have been declining...
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship over 19 million handsets in 2Q12
Taiwan-based vendor HTC and ODM/JDM makers together shipped 19.19 million handsets in the second quarter of 2012, increasing by 21.8% on quarter but decreasing by 16.9% on year, according...
Monday 23 July 2012
HTC amends strategy, reduces stake in Beats
HTC has amended its development strategy and is likely to slow down its acquisition plans after announcing that it has reached a deal of selling nearly half of its holdings in audio...
Friday 20 July 2012
Taiwan market: Samsung ranks as top smartphone vendor in June with over 40% share, says paper
Samsung Electronics managed to retain its top-vendor title in Taiwan's smartphone market in June with a 41.5% share in terms of sales volume, up from 35.8% in the previous month,...
Friday 13 July 2012
HTC hopes for large proportion of revenues from China market, say China president
HTC hopes that revenues in China and other markets in Asia Pacific can increase to one-third of its total consolidated revenues at the end of 2012, China-based 21st Century Business...
Thursday 12 July 2012
HTC sees market share increase in China and India
HTC has faced tough competition in Europe and the US but has been seeing market share in China and India grow significantly in 2012. Nevertheless, growth of market share in these...
Monday 9 July 2012
Nokia, RIM and HTC to see smartphone shipments continue sliding in 2H12, say sources
Nokia, RIM and HTC are expected to see their smartphone shipments, as well as market share, continue declining in the third and fourth quarters of 2012 due to a lag in migration to...
Friday 6 July 2012
HTC posts flat revenues for June
HTC has posted consolidated revenues of NT$30 billion (US$1 billion) for June, which were on par with May, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). The...
Thursday 5 July 2012
Competition of quad-core smartphones to heat up in 4Q12, say sources
Competition for quad-core smartphones will heat up in the fourth quarter of 2012, triggering by the roll-out of much speculated new iPhone and models built based on Qualcomm's quad-core...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Samsung to begin shipping memory products to HTC directly from October
Samsung Electronics will begin to ship its memory products to HTC directly from October 2012, while taking back the distribution rights from its sales agent CoAsia Microelectronics,...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
China market: HTC, Sony Mobile launch dual-SIM smartphones
HTC and Sony Mobile Communications have both enhanced their strengths in the dual-SIM smartphone segment in China with the launch of the HTC Desire VC and Xperia Tipo Dual, respectively,...
Tuesday 26 June 2012
HTC denies laying off R&D personnel, says paper
HTC has denied market speculation indicating that it plans to lay off as much as of 16% of its R&D personnel aiming to optimize its corporate structure for cost savings, according...
Thursday 21 June 2012
Branded handset vendors cutting orders to component suppliers, say sources
A number of branded handset vendors, including Nokia, Motorola Mobility, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony Mobile Communications, RIM, HTC, Huawei Device and ZTE, have reduced...