{"id":749387,"date":"2013-05-02T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=480217"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T15:35:18","slug":"samsungs-shadow-grows-darker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749387","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s shadow grows darker"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/02\/samsung-marketing-advertising-analysis-htc\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/samsung-sign-923.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Marketing Advertising\" title=\"Samsung Marketing Advertising\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>HTC was once the top-selling smartphone vendor in the United States. It wasn't even that long ago. The Taiwan-based vendor reported six consecutive months of record revenue in 2011 before it ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/11\/07\/iphone-4s-launch-helps-end-htcs-record-revenue-run\/\">a brick wall known as the iPhone 4S<\/a>. Since then, things have been tumbling downhill for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc\">HTC<\/a>, culminating in the company's <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/02\/htc-q1-2013-earnings-audited\/\">worst-ever quarterly performance that saw profits plummet 98% in Q1 2013<\/a>. Fierce competition from Apple is one reason HTC has seen its profits evaporate over the past year and a half, but another company has likely caused even more trouble for the struggling smartphone vendor: Samsung.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/02\/samsung-marketing-advertising-analysis-htc\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/QAwg8JqgmX0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC was once the top-selling smartphone vendor in the United States. It wasn&#8217;t even that long ago. The Taiwan-based vendor reported six consecutive months of record revenue in 2011 before it ran into a brick wall known as the iPhone 4S. Since then, things have been tumbling downhill for HTC, culminating in the company&#8217;s worst-ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38WT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}