{"id":38045,"date":"2013-05-02T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=38045"},"modified":"2013-05-02T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:23:45","slug":"did-this-beleaguered-smartphone-maker-finally-hit-a-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/05\/02\/did-this-beleaguered-smartphone-maker-finally-hit-a-home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Did This Beleaguered Smartphone Maker (Finally) Hit a Home Run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/WallStreetDaily.com\/\"><u>WallStreetDaily.com<\/u><\/a> <\/p>\n<div id=\"wistia_rnhh6exl5k\" class=\"wistia_embed\" style=\"width: 525px;height: 319px\">\n<div>Smartphone Maker (Finally) Hit a Homerun<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[<br \/>\nwistiaEmbed = Wistia.embed(&quot;rnhh6exl5k&quot;, {<br \/>\n  version: &quot;v1&quot;,<br \/>\n  videoWidth: 525,<br \/>\n  videoHeight: 295,<br \/>\n  volumeControl: true,<br \/>\n  controlsVisibleOnLoad: true,<br \/>\n  endVideoBehavior: &quot;reset&quot;,<br \/>\n  plugin: {<br \/>\n    &quot;socialbar-v1&quot;: {<br \/>\n      buttons: &quot;embed-twitter-facebook&quot;,<br \/>\n      logo: true,<br \/>\n      badgeUrl: &quot; http:\/\/www.wallstreetdaily.com\/wallstreet-research\/leadgen\/videolg.php&quot;,<br \/>\n      badgeImage: &quot;http:\/\/embed.wistia.com\/deliveries\/eec4bb06bdd7e8a1b9856178a39f61a1ec3620fc.jpg?image_crop_resized=100&#215;20&quot;<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n});<br \/>\n\/\/ ]]&gt;<\/p>\n<p>When <b>HTC<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=TPE%3A2498\">2498<\/a>) launched the new smartphone in its \u201cOne\u201d lineup in February, the outlook didn\u2019t look very promising.<\/p>\n<p>As we said at the time, \u201cin terms of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallstreetdaily.com\/2013\/02\/26\/video-yotaphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android-powered handsets<\/a>, HTC hasn\u2019t been able to hold a torch to <b>Samsung\u2019s\u00a0<\/b>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=LON:BC94\">BC94<\/a>) hit Galaxy devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But considering that the company now expects second-quarter revenue to jump 64%, to nearly $2.4 billion, it seems that the beleaguered smartphone maker could have hit a home run with the new handset.<\/p>\n<p>A quick glance at HTC\u2019s chart shows that investor interest is starting to heat back up. Shares have increased 26% since mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>Article By <a href=\"http:\/\/WallStreetDaily.com\/\"><u>WallStreetDaily.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallstreetdaily.com\/2013\/05\/02\/video-htc-one\/\">Did This Beleaguered Smartphone Maker (Finally) Hit a Home Run?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WallStreetDaily.com Smartphone Maker (Finally) Hit a Homerun \/\/ &lt;![CDATA[ wistiaEmbed = Wistia.embed(&quot;rnhh6exl5k&quot;, { version: &quot;v1&quot;, videoWidth: 525, videoHeight: 295, volumeControl: true, controlsVisibleOnLoad: true, endVideoBehavior: &quot;reset&quot;, plugin: { &quot;socialbar-v1&quot;: { buttons: &quot;embed-twitter-facebook&quot;, logo: true, badgeUrl: &quot; http:\/\/www.wallstreetdaily.com\/wallstreet-research\/leadgen\/videolg.php&quot;, badgeImage: &quot;http:\/\/embed.wistia.com\/deliveries\/eec4bb06bdd7e8a1b9856178a39f61a1ec3620fc.jpg?image_crop_resized=100&#215;20&quot; } } }); \/\/ ]]&gt; When HTC (2498) launched the new smartphone in its \u201cOne\u201d lineup &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/05\/02\/did-this-beleaguered-smartphone-maker-finally-hit-a-home-run\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did This Beleaguered Smartphone Maker (Finally) Hit a Home Run?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}