Quietly brilliant. The pithy two-word slogan of Taiwan’s HTC could readily sum up the company’s recent performance. Its Android-based smartphones are spreading across developed markets like wildfire, its unit market share in the global mobile market has gone from nothing to 2.6 per cent in just 3 years, while its latest release – the Thunderbolt – is attracting rave reviews.
And as of this week, the Taiwanese smartphone maker – which few had heard of just a couple of years ago – now has a bigger market cap than Nokia.






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