Taiwan smartphone giant HTC on Tuesday posted a third successive quarterly profit as the launch of a series of new products gave a lift to the resurgent brand. Revenue rose 14.1 percent to Tw$47.87 billion, the first growth in three years, according to Bloomberg News, boosted by the launch of mid-tier handsets mainly targeting China and other emerging markets. In October HTC launched an array of new products and services, including the Desire Eye smartphone, the social video-editing application Zoe and its first camera, called RE. In the same month, it partnered with Google to unveil the Nexus 9 tablet dubbed "Lollipop" -- the world's first tablet to run on Google's latest operating system, Android 5.0.



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