Samsung will acquire 3% of Sharp for 10.4 billion yen (HK$856.8 million) to secure liquid crystal displays for smartphones and televisions. It is emphasising OLED technology that offers sharper, brighter images while consuming less power. ...
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The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.2 per cent at 5109.2 after hitting a 4 1/2-year high of 5135.7 in early trading. Share trading value worth $5.2 billion slipped just below the 20-day moving average of $5.3bn. Asian markets were ...
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South Korean firm Samsung is to buy a three per cent stake in its Japanese rival Sharp for 10.4bn yen (£73m). Sharp has been struggling to restructure its operations as it continues to make losses; the firm has forecast its biggest ...
Blue chips continued to climb to new heights, pushing beyond the record levels reached in yesterday's rally after a better-than-expected reading on the labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 42.47 points, or 0.3 per cent, ...
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According to report, Japan’s Maruichi Steel Tube said it will life up all steel pipe and tube prices by ¥10,000/ton (US$108/ton) for April shipments. The price rise reflects the higher input costs, especially the hot rolled coils. ...
According to statistics release by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan imported 20,037 tons of stainless steel products in January, soaring by 47.4% from a month ago. Among them, 15,149 tons were from Korea, surging by ...
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According to foreign media reports, South Korean electronics giant Samsung is running the final negotiation with Sharp, it might invest about 10 billion yen (about U.S. $ 107 million) and purchase a 3% stake of the latter. Sharp, Sony and ...
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Sony has sold the main office "Sony CityOsaki" in Tokyo by the 111.1 billion yen (about 1.2 billion dollars). The office building is 25 stories high, was completed in 2011 in March, covering an area of 124,000 square meters, containing ...
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Next month Toshiba is to sample ARM-based image recognition processors for industrial use. Mass production is planned for January 2014. The industrial image recognition processors are a derivation of its Visconti range of image processors ...
Japanese tech firm NEC is to make an agressive play for dominance of western telecommunications and energy storage markets, one of its executives has revealed to Computing. Power rangers: Fujitsu, Docomo and NEC form smartphone chip ...
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Cristal announced that it will increase prices on all of its anatase and rutile TiONA and Cristal titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific sub-regions ...
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According to Kyodo News, the trade statistics released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance on the 27th (in clearance date) data showed, in early February (Feb.1-Feb.10), Japan’s trade balance deficit was 395.1 billion yen (about 27 ...
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Microsoft Surface RT is expected to be sold to consumers in Japan, this version can run the Microsoft Office RT and IE10 desktop applications, but only for application in the Windows app store. The price of 32GB version of the Surface RT ...
Kawano Yang, president of Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the price of the 3G and Wi-Fi version of the PS Vita in the Japanese market would fall to 19,980 yen (about 215 dollars) from February 28. The price of 3G and the Wi-Fi ...
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The net sales of Subaru in the first three year was 13,707 million yen (about 14.67 billion dollars), an increase of 33.2% compared with the same period of the previous year. During the period from 2012 April to December, Subaru car sales ...
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