HTC lost a whopping $330 million during Q4 2017, with flat revenues compared to Q3

It no longer comes as a big surprise that HTC isn't capable of making money, losing more than ever over a three-month period that's generally very lucrative for tech manufacturers.

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HTC will get a financial boost from Google soon, but until then, monthly revenues are down

Before it can return to quarterly profitability with Google's help, HTC's monthly income scores are still shrinking, and new Vive headsets will probably not help that much.

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LG Electronics boasts record full-year 2017 revenues, ‘narrowed’ Q4 smartphone losses

LG lost another $192 million on smartphones during Q4 2017, nonetheless reporting all-time high overall annual revenues of $55.4 billion.

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HTC looks doomed to end 2017 with lower revenue than 2016 after October result

If it wasn't abundantly clear, October revenue confirms 2017 has been a bad year for HTC following half a decade already of constant financial decline.

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LG probably made more money during Q3 2017 than last year, no thanks to smartphones

LG's mobile division is expected to post its tenth consecutive quarter loss for the July - September 2017 timeframe, despite solid overall company profits.

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Lenovo touts 11 million smartphone shipments for the last quarter, 3 million Moto Z sales within a year

Lenovo is still hoping for mobile industry relevance after selling a total of 11 million own-brand and Motorola smartphones between April and June 2017.

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Moderately successful HTC U11 wasn’t enough to return company to profitability during Q2

Despite relatively strong HTC U11 sales, the company's overall Q2 2017 financial report doesn't look so hot, with a quarterly loss of USD 72 million.

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‘Weaker than expected’ LG G6 had a ‘challenging’ quarter, but the company still made a little money

As attractive as we found it, the LG G6 simply didn't sell well during Q2 2017. But the company's home appliances and TVs were profitable enough.

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LG predicts shrinking overall Q2 profits, high G6 marketing costs likely to cause massive division loss

Instead of helping LG's smartphone division finally yield a quarterly profit, the G6 contributed to bigger losses and lower overall earnings.

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‘Weak’ LG G5 blamed for yet another even more disappointing company quarter

LG is quick to single out the very weak-selling G5 as the culprit of the company's big overall Q4 financial losses, but that's not entirely fair.

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HTC reports ‘strong’ Q3 revenues, small $57 million net loss

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Samsung estimates direct and indirect Galaxy Note 7 losses at $5.3 billion through Q1 2017

A “measly” $1 billion? As much as $17 billion? Just the $2.3 billion shaved off Samsung’s estimated operating profits for Q3? How about a “middling” $5.3 billion spread out over three quarters, through March 2017?That’s probably a reasonable ...

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Forget $1 billion, Samsung could lose as much as $17 billion on terminated Galaxy Note 7 sales

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Remember when the first Galaxy Note 7 recall was estimated to cost Samsung roughly $1 billion, which Koh Dong-Jin, the tech giant’s mobile division president, deemed a “heartbreaking amount”?It turns out those were still the days for the world’s most popular smartphone vendor, which somehow managed to offset initial losses incurred by the explosive …

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Sony Mobile sales continue to contract, but a tiny division profit is recorded

Confirmed reports of Sony looking to dispense with its long-lived, once leading-edge but no longer successful and profitable battery business sounded like bad news not just for the conglomerate’s components and semiconductors departments.Other flagging divisions, including mobile communications, aka smartphones, could be in danger, as Sony stops relying on perennially prosperous gaming, home ...

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