Samsung fined $340k in Taiwan over HTC smear campaign

Earlier this year Samsung was found to be associated with two PR agencies in Taiwan, which were paying some guys to besmirching HTC's reputation while praising Samsung products on local online forums.
The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission started an investigation into the matter and has now come forward with three separate fines regarding the incident.



Samsung's Taiwan business is to pay a NT$10 million penalty (around $340,000), while OpenTide Taiwan Co. and Sales and Profit International Co. were fined NT$3 million (around $102,000) and NT$50,000 (around $1700) respectively.

The FTC views purposefully misleading information and deliberate ii-speaking about competitors an unfair business.
Earlier this year Samsung was fined by the same FTC NT$300,000 (around $10,000) for a misleading ad about the camera of the Samsung Galaxy Y Duous GT-S6102.


Reference:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_fined_340k...n-news-7046.php

ribut tahi incoming !!!


padan muka wahaha

samsung lawan htc
apple tepuk tangan

pop-corns~ anyone want some pop-corns??

Now, which advertisement is this?

samseng kearah kuasa besar...that y many butthurter against samseng.

what can you expect from korean mafia company?

lawan epal kat us, samsung kalah.. lawan htc kat taiwan, pun samsung kalah.. meh lawan kat malaysia, gelanggang terbuka..

Hahaha Samseng memang main kotor oh...
Samseng fag gonna rage~~~

Story
While we are all eagerly awaiting to learn more about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV and what it will bring to the table, Samsung seems to have lost a bit of its focus on lower-end devices and slipped a mistake that cost it a fine in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission noticed that Samsung has been running “misleading” advertising about its low-end Samsung Galaxy Y Duos Android phone. In its ads, Samsung promoted the dual-sim Galaxy Y as having auto-focus camera with flash while it has none, and instead features a fixed-focus barebones rear camera.

This nasty mistake would hardly be noticed in Samsung multi-billion stream of revenues and profits, but it still got slapped with a NT$300,000 (around $10,000) fine for misleading information.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-sla...uos-ads_id38723

This post has been edited by fantasy1989: Oct 25 2013, 10:26 AM

No matter what dirty tricks samseng pulling, HTC One still being awarded the best smartphone in year 2013 on several tech mags.

Sent from HTC One

No, the video doesn't says anything about the camera.
Did you even watch before posting?

i got watch ...but thats the only ads i can get ..probably they removed it ..i try google again


This post has been edited by fantasy1989: Oct 25 2013, 10:26 AM

all this ad's from india la dei...

topic say fined in taiwan, but post ads from india

we discussing january punya case ...topic is recently 1 ..different

No, it doesn't says anything about autofocus and camera flash also..
dude, you watched and you think this is the ads? what are you smoking?

flyday weed

Never gonna buy any Samsung products.

Even stupid phone benchmarks also want to cheat. Now, even hire keyboard warriors to spread false information about competitors products.

Damn mafia companies.

Microsoft is shit but this is the new low by Samsung.

TL;DR version:

Samsung hire keyboard warrior to launch smear campaign against HTC at Taiwan forum, while praising own product, kantoi and kena fined by local authority.