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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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Friday 15 July 2011
HTC appoints president of global sales and marketing
HTC has appointed its incumbent president of North America and Latin America Jason Mackenzie to the newly-created position of president of global sales and marketing, effective immediately...
Wednesday 13 July 2011
HTC denies Apple infringement claims
HTC has strongly denied all of Apple's past and present claims of infringing of its intellectual property rights, saying it is dismayed that Apple has continued to resort to legal...
Monday 11 July 2011
Teardown of HTC ThunderBolt provides insights on rumored LTE iPhone, says IHS iSuppli
If the rumors are true that the next-generation iPhone will support 4G LTE, the new Apple smartphone likely will be significantly more expensive to make than the current iPhone 4...
Thursday 7 July 2011
Commentary: HTC acquisition of graphics and 3D patents has limited effect to counter Apple patent lawsuits
HTC has stated that its decision to acquire S3 Graphics from its associate company VIA Technologies is aimed at strengthening its patent profiles related to graphics and 3D technology,...
Thursday 7 July 2011
Upstream tablet PC component suppliers gearing up production
Upstream component suppliers for non-iPad tablet PCs have been gearing up their preparation of needed parts and components for models to be launched by brand vendors in the third...
Thursday 7 July 2011
HTC posts 2Q11 EPS of NT$20.63
HTC has reported after-tax profits of NT$17.52 billion (US$608 million), or NT$20.63 a share, on revenues of NT$124.4 billion for the second quarter of 2011. Second-quarter EPS of...
Thursday 7 July 2011
VIA sells S3 Graphics to HTC
Taiwan-based chipset maker VIA Technologies has announced it will sell its shareholdings in S3 Graphics to its affiliate company High Tech Computer (HTC) for US$300 million. The action...
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Digitimes Insight: Taiwan handset shipments grow less than 10% in 2Q11; HTC has more than 50% share
Despite that Taiwan-based handset makers High Tech Computer (HTC) and Arima Communication continued to enjoy strong shipment growth in the second quarter, Taiwan's overall handset...
Tuesday 5 July 2011
HTC faces challenge for 2011 shipment goal
HTC has set an internal goal of shipping 54 million smartphones in 2011 but the goal is expected to be difficult to attain because the company will be faced with strong competition...
Monday 4 July 2011
HTC sees June, 2Q11 revenues hit records
Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC on June 3 reported consolidated revenues of NT$45.049 billion (US$1.556 billion) for June, hitting monthly records for the third consecutive time...
Friday 1 July 2011
HTC signs licensing agreement with Intellectual Ventures
HTC has signed a long-term licensing and alliance agreement with Intellectual Ventures in order to build up its portfolio of patented technologies for the production of smartphones...
Tuesday 28 June 2011
HTC opens EMEA headquarters in UK
HTC has inaugurated its new headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) located in Slough, UK, with EMEA president Florian Seiche leading a staff of 500 members, according...
Monday 27 June 2011
Consumer products to adopt solar panels
Following Apple's footsteps in installing solar panels in consumer products, Samsung has introduced the first solar panel netbook, NC215S.
Wednesday 22 June 2011
International smartphone vendors face competition from local brands in Southeast Asia
With sales ratios of smartphones to total handset sales in some markets in the Southeast Asia region expecting to grow about from 10% currently to 40-50% in the next 3-5 years, the...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Taiwan market: Samsung replaces Nokia as top handset vendor, says paper
Samsung Electronics replaced, for the first time, Nokia as the top handset vendor in terms of unit sales in the Taiwan market in May with a market share of 20.8%, the Chinese-language...