Samsung will have to pay penalty against HTC for dirt campaign - Mobilegeeks

Samsung has to pay a penalty in Taiwan because the competition authorities of the country: it has been proved that the Korean electronics company with a well-controlled smear campaign would harm its competitor HTC.

pay the Taiwanese branch of Samsung has 10 million Taiwan dollars, which represents only the equivalent of almost 250,000 euros, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC). The competition authority has found that Samsung was actually known as a few months ago trying to hurt with fake users opinions in Internet forums Taiwanese HTC. On the one hand, HTC’s products were of an agency authorized by Samsung and their employees poorly made, while their own devices have been praised to the skies.

According to the FTC action against the violating this policy to prevent unfair competition. Also, the acting on behalf of Samsung marketing agencies OpenTide and Profit International were subject to penalties because they supported the company in violation of antitrust laws of Taiwan. Samsung had publicly apologized after learning of the highly questionable marketing campaign and insists that the headquarters in Korea, knew nothing of the activities of the Taiwanese subsidiary. It had been a clear breach of internal regulations, which took appropriate internal consequences, it was then called.