Samsung Pays for Online Attacks on Smartphone Rival

[danibbler]

Looks like Samsung doesn't only copy from its rivals, it also goes so far as to pay people to post fake reviews! That is what it has admitted to doing in Taiwan and the gov't there is looking into it.

Now, the question is whether or not this is limited to Taiwan or elsewhere? Could some of its vast US marketing budget have gone into paying people off? :eyebrows:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/tec...sung-for-defaming-htc-on-local-online-forums/

Fabricated Internet posts praising Samsung at the expense of HTC products has landed the South Korean company in hot water with Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission.

the "unfortunate incident" did occur, the company admitted.

 

[basketcase]

Three nonsensical anti-android posts in one day by nib. Is this a record?

 

[IM469]

Three nonsensical anti-android posts in one day by nib. Is this a record?

When Apple crashes below $300/ share - there will be 10 nonsensical anti-android posts in one day.

 

[djk]

Lower lows. And I thought that only happens in the market. Great job, Samsung.

 

[simon482]

like they are the only company that does this. they are the only company that admits to it. i would say that is pretty honorable of them.

 

[danibbler]

like they are the only company that does this. they are the only company that admits to it. i would say that is pretty honorable of them.

LOL!!! That's nonsensical even coming from you.

 

[danibbler]

Looks like the story is getting more play...seems as if Samsung's paid horde is hard at work still:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/21/apple-samsung-agent-provocateurs/

The post drew more that the usual number of comments. Twenty six hours later, we're up to 343 messages and counting. Some readers supported the thesis. Some ridiculed it. Some attacked Apple. Some attacked me.

That kind of thing comes with the territory, although not usually in such numbers or with such vehemence. But what happened at about 2 a.m. EST -- Sunday afternoon in Seoul, South Korea -- was new.

In the space of a few hours, more than a thousand votes were cast on the DISQUS feedback system, voting down any comment remotely anti-Samsung and voting up anything -- no matter how inane, in-artful or wrong -- that disparaged Apple, the thesis, or me.