Samsung is under investigation by Taiwanese authorities over allegations that it used deceptive advertising practices in the country, the AFP reports. The company reportedly hired students to write negative remarks online about HTC and to post promotional content for itself. Though it's unclear what the actual content of these messages was, in a statement provided to The Verge, Samsung said that its Taiwanese branch "has ceased all marketing activities that involve the posting of anonymous comments." It believes that the incident was an error due to insufficient training, and that it is not consistent with Samsung's policies.

The AFP reports that the online campaign occurred through a local advertising agency hired by Samsung Electronics Taiwan, and that Samsung could be fined up to NT$25 million ($835,000) if the allegations are upheld. Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has already fined Samsung at least twice in the past year. The jointly owned company Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology was penalized for price fixing in September 2012 along with LG, Sony, and Philips, and earlier this year Samsung itself was fined around NT$300,000 ($7,670) for misleading advertising of one model of its Galaxy Y Duos.

Samsung's full statement on the incident is below:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/42...ts-against-htc

I wonder how many of the stans on ATRL are hired.

Well, HTC devices are horrible so...moot point?

You are uneducated.
Bye.



Samsung would be a fool to claim HTC is not a threat this year. The One is being praised by reputable tech sites as the best Android phone ever by many reviewers.. (receipts incoming.. Stay tuned for my flaw Free HTC /gs4 analysis review thread in the coming days.)

This only shows the evil that is Samsung. Let's just hope for the companies sake, that this is fake.


I mean what kind of damage control? What kind of desperation!? Greed!

Samsung basically confirmed it themselves lmao. How would it be fake

Considering HTC is not even a threat this is so dumb.

They should target Nokia or Sony instead.

I wonder why though.

HTC had like a 98% loss and probably won't go back into profitability in a long ass time.

I didn't think Samsung was evil and played dirty.

Probably H-I-M has written a few

Poor Sammy

I'm not surprised tbh, the HTC One is a better phone. April 24th can't come soon enough

Ddjldashñjgdafbkñjd! Omfg your right. I just saw the verge article and the statement (damage control) Samsung released!



So they lie, cheat And steal (copy).. How desperate! They are obviously worried that another android oem make there comeback and as a result they lose potential customers... Girl bye. This is more embarrassing then if a pop girl was caught buying thousands of copies of her own album so that it appears as if she actually was more relevant.

This only proves how uneducated you are about these things. HTC is more relevant then Sony mobile division. HTC has never been unprofitable even with there saddening losses. You keep trying child.

The HTC one is the only android competitor basically until google unveils the xPhone.

Never thought I'd say this but.. Lol I now prefer Apple over Samsung.. I will pay them dust. Girl bye. I'd get an iPhone over a Sammy phone any day. Where are Samsung's fans? Why aren't they responding.
Looking the other way on this one eh?

they are insecure against the one, it's understandable.

At least they weren't paid to lie.

Poor you not grasping the reality. They where paid to post fake benchmarks and lie about personal experiences with using HTC BRANDED phones. Samsung even admitted "lieing" but blame it on poor training within their marketing team. Pft. Scam-sung.

More like you regret getting caught.

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