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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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Wednesday 14 February 2018
HTC smartphone business head resigns
HTC has seen the head of its smartphone business resign, about two weeks after it completed a deal to transfer its ODM smartphone team to Google.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
HTC revenues hit six-month low in January
HTC saw its consolidated revenues dip 15.3% on month and 27% on year to a six-month low of NT$3.403 billion (US$116.42 million) in January.
Wednesday 31 January 2018
HTC completes deal with Google
HTC has completed the deal of transferring its ODM smartphone team to Google, and the company will now focus more on developing branded smartphone and VR products, according to a...
Friday 26 January 2018
HTC ships standalone Vive Focus in China
HTC has begun shipping its Vive Focus VR devices to consumers in China, expecting the availability of the standalone VR products to boost its sales performance for the first quarter...
Thursday 25 January 2018
Taiwan smartphone sales dip lower in December
Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market slid 5.5% sequentially to 614,000 units in December 2017, as sales momentum of Apple's iPhone X and iPhone 8 devices began to slow down, according...
Tuesday 16 January 2018
HTC launches U11 Eyes in Taiwan
HTC launched its new smartphone, the U11 Eyes, in the Taiwan market on January 15 and began to take pre-orders immediately. The new model, which features 2D facial recognition capability,...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
HTC unveils Vive Pro at CES 2018
HTC has unveiled a new version of its Vive headset, Vive Pro, at CES 2018 as the company moves to further enhance its VR hardware business along with other efforts to expand its VR...
Monday 8 January 2018
HTC reports steep drop in December revenues
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.02 billion (US$136.44 million) for December 2017, decreasing 29% on month and 37.3% on year, as sales of its new premier model, HTC...
Monday 8 January 2018
Taiwan businesses may record impressive M&A growth in 2018
Taiwan businesses have performed aggressively in conducting mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at home and abroad over the past year, and a spate of factors such as cross-domain integrations...
Wednesday 27 December 2017
HTC to limit number of new smartphones for 2018
HTC is expected to focus its R&D and marketing efforts on a limited number of smartphones for release in 2018 as it is struggling to bring a comeback to it smartphone business...
Monday 25 December 2017
Smartphone sales rebound in Taiwan in November
Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market expanded 11.88% on month and 3.17% on year to a nine-month high of 650,000 units in November, according to data compiled by local retail chann...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan handset shipments post gains in 3Q17
Shipments of handsets by Taiwan's brand vendors and ODMs reached 22.9 million units in the third quarter of 2017, up 11.2% sequentially and 85.3% on year, according to Digitimes Re...
Friday 15 December 2017
China market: HTC enjoys strong pre-orders for Vive Focus
HTC has seen higher-than-expected pre-orders for its standalone VR head-mounted display (HMD), the Vive Focus, in China, with the device's high popularity to benefit HTC's December...
Friday 8 December 2017
China market: HTC Vive Focus aims for Janaury-2018 release
HTC on December 7 hosted a Vive experiencing event in Beijing and also announced that it will begin to accept pre-orders for its standalone head-mounted display (HMD) Vive Focus,...
Thursday 7 December 2017
HTC reports decreased November revenues
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$5.663 billion (US$188 million) for November, decreasing 6.61% sequentially and 26.16% on year, mainly due to decreased shipments of Pixel...