{"id":31107,"date":"2013-02-04T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31107"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:13:59","slug":"htc-looks-to-emerging-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/31107\/htc-looks-to-emerging-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC looks to emerging markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Monday it will focus more on emerging markets in 2013, as it grapples with trying to maintain sales in a market dominated by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Financial Officer Chang Chia-Lin was speaking at a briefing after the company said it expects revenue to be flat to 17 percent lower in the first quarter compared with the previous three months.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it expected to see sequential revenue growth quarter to quarter in 2013 as it rolls out new flagship products.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Smartphones<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"The year of the phablet\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/29320\/2013-year-of-the-phablet\/\"><strong>2013: year of the \u201cphablet\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple shares continue downward slide\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/28704\/apple-shares-continue-downward-slide\/\"><strong>Apple shares continue downward slide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB adds to its Apple armoury\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/28665\/fnb-adds-to-its-apple-armoury\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB adds to its Apple armoury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Maps back on iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/28626\/google-maps-back-on-ios\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Maps back on iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Monday it will focus more on emerging markets in 2013, as it grapples with trying to maintain sales in a market dominated by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,3580,245],"class_list":["post-31107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-emerging-markets","tag-htc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31120,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31107\/revisions\/31120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}