TAIPEI (Reuters) - Shares in Taiwanese technology company HTC Corp (>> HTC Corp) rose 9.96 pct in early trading on Friday.

HTC Corp announced on Thursday that Alphabet Inc's Google (>> Alphabet) would pay $1.1 billion for the division at HTC that develops the U.S. firm's Pixel smartphones.

(Reporting by Jess Macy Yu)

Stocks treated in this article : Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., HTC Corp, Alphabet