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" Samsung has forecast a decline in profits for the second quarter running. The tech giant is expecting to make 8.4 trillion won (\u00A34.8bn) in operating profit for the quarter spanning January to March, a 4% downturn year-on-year.  Analysts have attributed the slide to falling margins for smartphones and staggered growth in the sector. Earlier this year, Samsung stated that it expects growing competition in the phone market to erode its profit margins, with Apple, HTC, Sony, Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei all vying for an increased share. One analyst has warned Samsung that it could be forced to reduce the cost of its products to remain ahead of its competitors.  &amp;quot;What Samsung needs to do this year for additional growth are things like cost reduction and reducing marketing costs,&amp;quot; BBC News quotes HMC Investment and Securities analyst Greg Roh as saying. &amp;quot;In some sense, Samsung has no way to prevent a decline in its earnings without improving internal efficiencies.&amp;quot; Samsung will release its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, on Friday (April 11). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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