HTC plagued by internal flights - Frandroid

If you have followed the adventures of HTC this year, you probably know that all was not very rosy for the Taiwanese firm. Indeed, many executives have left the company for various reasons in Taiwan but also in the United States. Some of them – designers of high level – have the opportunity to steal secrets from HTC.

Thomas Dog

This is a case of alleged theft of trade secrets, some analysts expecting the ongoing investigation launched by prosecutors to undermine market confidence in HTC. In any case, the facts alleged are serious.

vice president of “Product Design” Thomas Chien, director R & D Wu Chien Hung, and a team leader “Design” Justin Huang were part of a group of five employees who left the company on August 30. Why start

Several Chinese media say that HTC would have taken his hand in the bag, Dog trying to download data on the upcoming HTC Sense 6.0 interface. These data were shared directly to external e-mails. Chien and Wu were both detained in the wake of complaints from HTC and searches of homes and offices of the suspects.

Dog was arrested following the decision of the Taipei office

This is not all that criticized … HTC accuses Dog, Wu and Huang have established a false contract of € 252,000 (NT $ 10 million) for the design of aluminum frame HTC One. In fact, the chassis was designed entirely in-house, and the money was shared among the three suspects.

The court ruled that the vice general manager of the research department Chien Chih-lin and the department director Wu Chien-hung should be kept in custody. Prosecutors said that Wu Chien had planned to open new phone design companies in Taiwan and China. They were suspected of wanting to cooperate with local governments in China to create companies and transfer technology HTC in China, according to the indictment.

HTC has not commented on this matter, however the company said that its employees should respect a code of conduct based on integrity, ethics and respect for the confidentiality of information .

In any case, this case reveals that working on a new HTC Sense 6.0 interface. Stay tuned.

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