“Taiwan’s smartphone maker HTC saw its shares fall 10%, the daily trading limit, in the wake of poor earnings and a weak outlook,” BBC News reports.
“The sharp drop came one day after the struggling smartphone maker reported a record quarterly loss,” The Beeb reports. “For the three months to June, losses hit 8bn Taiwanese dollars (£163m; $253m) from Tw$2.26bn a year earlier.”
“A pioneer of early Android smartphones, HTC is struggling with competition from Apple, Samsung and Chinese rivals,” The Beeb reports. “Friday’s shares tumble saw the company stocks fall by 10%, which is the maximum allowed on one day. Shares fell to their lowest since February 2005.”
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MacDailyNews Take: For how much longer will HTC continue to dump money into fragmandroid’s bottomless pit?
Apple’s iPhone owns 92% of smartphone industry’s profits.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “CaptainWhizz” for the heads up.]