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Samsung overtakes Apple as top smartphone seller, no FT (realce meu):

Samsung Electronics has overtaken Apple to become the world’s largest seller of smartphones as shipments rose 40 per cent in the third quarter, shaking off legal wrangling between the two companies over technology patents.

Only a year ago the South Korean company was a minor player in the booming smartphone market, but it has quadrupled smartphone shipments over the past year by turning to Google’s Android software for its Galaxy products.