Driven by an aggressive online channel strategy and anti-China sentiments in the country, South Korean-made Samsung, for the first time in two years, surpassed China's Xiaomi to become the leading smartphone market shareholder. While Xiaomi's smartphone market share in the third quarter (July-September) dropped 4 percent year-over-year, Samsung registered year-over-year growth of 32 percent, according to an industryreportby Counterpoint Research. […]
