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What other business units does HTC have besides the smartphone business? They've got the Vive, but I thought manufacturing smartphones was the majority of thei

• contingencies 9y ago
  Because they are a stock market listed company, the way to check this is to read their annual report[0], which can be found by searching 'htc annual report'. The latest is from 2016, published March 2017. VR and Healthcare are listed. Interestingly, HTC bought a company I used to work for way back in 2010, that was focused on cross-platform mobile video solutions (including content discovery/DRM/licensing). They sold it like a hot potato only a year later after apparently changing corporate strategy, I suspect for legal reasons (we had large contracts with most rival manufacturers: Nokia/Sony Ericsson/LG/Samsung/etc.). They also bought the Beats brand in 2011, which IIRC has recently been acquired by Apple. For a nominally famously 'engineer run organization' HTC certainly seems to vacillate in its strategic development. [0] http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/IROL/14/148697/AnnualReports/2016HTC-Annual_Report-English.pdf http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/IROL/14/148697/Ann...