<p>TAIPEI (Reuters) - HTC Corp's chief executive has handed some duties to the company's chairwoman as the smartphone maker struggles to claw back market share from Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the Financial Times reported.</p><p>Chief executive Peter Chou is temporarily focusing on innovation and product development after HTC's latest One handset failed to arrest a slide in the company's share of the global smartphone business, the newspaper reported.</p><p>Cher Wang, chairwoman and company co-founder, is stepping up her duties to include sales, marketing and supplier relationship, it said.</p><p>H. T. Chou, another co-founder, has returned to the company to head certain phone projects, said a source with knowledge of the matter.</p><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/21/us-htc-chou-idUSBRE99K00Y20131021">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.dailytech.com/HTC+CEO+Hands+Sales+Marketing+Duties+Off+to+Focus+on+Smartphone+Comeback/article33582.htm">HTC CEO Hands Sales, Marketing Duties Off to Focus on Smartphone Comeback</a> (DailyTech)</p><p><a href="http://www.mobileworldlive.com/htc-ceo-hands-duties-focus-smartphone-fix">HTC CEO hands over some duties to focus on smartphone fix</a> (Mobile World Live)</p><p><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/htc-ceo-to-focus-on-smartphone-slide-1.1594914">HTC CEO to focus on smartphone slide</a> (Independent Online)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dChbvsjDZ06oGVMeQVBMZsur9wMRM&ned=us">73 additional articles.</a></p>