Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has published its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2011, stating that its net profit decreased by 25.5% year-over-year during the reporting period.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has announced that it will acquire a 51% stake in Beats Electronics, a U.S. high-end headphones and speakers maker, for about USD300 million.

Smartphone maker HTC and the Chinese Internet company Sina.com jointly held a cross-platform brand launch meeting in Beijing to promote the first Sina microblog-themed smartphone product in China.

Taiwanese mobile phones and devices designer HTC Corporation has announced that it has promoted Jason Mackenzie, HTC's president for North America and Latin America, to the newly-created position of president for global sales and marketing.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China.

The U.S.-based mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. will invest nearly USD1 billion to build a new display panel plant in Taiwan in 2011.

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the island's smartphone maker HTC has decided to inject additional capital of USD45 million in the Shanghai-based HTC Electronics for capacity expansion.

China Mobile and HTC have signed a TD-SCDMA terminal cooperative memorandum in Taiwan to jointly develop 3G handsets.

Affected by the global financial crisis and the delayed launch of its new mobile phone products, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC states that its net profit decreased by 30% year-on-year to USD146.7 million in the first quarter of 2009.

At the four-day Mobile World Congress held this week in Barcelona, Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei displayed its first Android-based high-end smartphone, which is due to enter the market in the third quarter of 2009.

According to information from the Open Handset Alliance, China's telecommunications manufacturer Huawei and 13 other companies, including Vodafone, Toshiba and Sony Ericsson, have jointed the alliance to lend support to the Android open source platform-based Google phone.

Asus will formally launch its Android handsets in Taiwan in 2009.

According to reports in Taiwan media, China Mobile (CHL) will cooperate with the Taiwan-based High Tech Computer, the maker of the T-Mobile G1, to develop a type of Android-based TD-SCDMA handset.