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2 September 2013 12:54

It is the nightmare of every technology company: a leak in our own development department. When Taiwanese company HTC three employees were arrested. They should have stolen technology for a new smartphone.

HTC was once a kind of pioneer in the smartphone business. The computer magazine Chip gave the Taiwanese company the award for “Company of the Year”. The reason: “With each new product HTC highlights the current state of the art.” That was 2010. Meanwhile, Samsung and Apple dominate the market, the share of HTC in the past year at four percent. Nevertheless, the Group’s products still seem to be attractive enough to copy them. three senior developers of the smartphone manufacturer have now been arrested. The suspicion of industrial espionage

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The suspects are said to have intended to cooperate with Chinese companies and to take technology from HTC, the CNA news agency reported, citing the prosecutor’s office. For this, they should have set up their own companies in Taiwan and China. Specifically, it should go to parts for a new smartphone that will come the end of the current year on the market.

addition, the suspect accused of having cheated the company by more than $ 300,000. You should have filed a fake account of a shell company.

The Group’s normal business was going on, the company said on Monday. The three arrested is the deputy head of the research department, Thomas Chien Chih-lin and the research and development director Wu Chien-hung. A third manager was again set at liberty on bail.

According to the Court in Taipei HTC had complained about the staff in August. The Group did not comment on the process and stressed in a statement only “. Protection of company property and the preservation and defense of intellectual property rights are key responsibilities for each employee”

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