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Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp on Friday reported a 79 percent drop in third quarter profit as intensifying competition from Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co hurt sales.
HTC said its profit totaled 3.9 billion New Taiwan dollars ($99 million) on revenue of NT$70 billion in the three months through September. It was HTC’s fourth consecutive fall in quarterly profit.
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The company predicts revenue to drop to NT$60 billion in the fourth quarter despite traditional pre-Christmas buying and its introduction of two new models running on Microsoft’s Windows 8 software.
HTC became the first maker of smartphones based on Google’s Android software in 2008 and its sales surged. It entered a sharp decline in the second half of 2011.
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