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Japan Display, an Apple iPhone supplier, seeks financial help from Japanese government
A top maker of displays for Apple Inc. smartphones has asked a Japanese government-backed fund for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid…
Apple supplier Sharp names Foxconn exec as CEO to spearhead revival
Japan’s Sharp Corp has named a top Foxconn executive as CEO and said it would seal a $3.5 billion stake sale…
Apple supplier Sharp preps AMOLED displays after Foxconn acquisition
A main motivation of Foxconn Electronics’ investment in Sharp is to develop AMOLED panels…
Did Apple help Foxconn buy Sharp?
Foxconn’s purchase of a 66% stake in Sharp for the reduced price of $3.5 billion is questionable…
Apple supplier Foxconn agrees to buy Sharp after slashing original offer
Taiwan’s Foxconn agreed to acquire Japan’s Sharp Corp. at a big discount to its original offer…
Sharp Corp. liabilities list covered worst-case scenarios; takeover talks extended
Top Sharp officials had not examined the list and had not planned to share it with Foxconn…
Why Foxconn’s multi-billion-dollar deal for Sharp is dead in the water
Board members of struggling Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. met Thursday and agreed to sell the company, but…
Foxconn’s $5.1 billion bid for Sharp could be good for Apple, too
LCD screens are expensive. They’re the most costly component in the iPhone 6 Plus, by about three times more than the next part…
Apple supplier Sharp accepts Hon Hai’s $6.2 billion takeover offer; Hon Hai says deal on hold
Sharp’s board on Thursday morning decided to accept a roughly 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion) takeover offer…
One surprise Apple may have in store for the iPhone 7s
After going through comments made during a technology presentation from Apple supplier…
Foxconn fast-tracks $5.5 billion Sharp takeover bid
Taiwanese iPhone assembler Foxconn is pushing to wrap up a takeover of Sharp Corp. within days…
State-backed Japanese fund in race with Foxconn to save Sharp
A state-backed Japanese fund is frontrunner to rescue Sharp Corp, ahead of a rival approach from Apple supplier Foxconn…
Hon Hai considering $1.7 billion stake in Sharp LCD business; to ask Apple to invest a ‘few hundred million’
Hon Hai planned to ask iPhone maker and customer Apple Inc, which is also a client of Sharp, to invest a ‘few hundred million dollars’ to help…
Hon Hai offers to buy Sharp’s LCD business, wants Apple funds
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co offered to buy Sharp Corp’s struggling liquid panel display business…
Apple suppliers Sharp, Foxconn in talks for LCD joint venture
Japanese supplier Sharp is negotiating with Hon Hai Precision Industry…
Apple display supplier Sharp warns on ability to stay afloat after $1.9 billion loss
Sharp, a century-old stalwart of corporate Japan…
Japan Display and Apple to build new $1.4 billion plant for iPhone Retina displays
Apple will invest an unspecified amount in the plant…
Japan Display in talks with Apple to build iPhone screen plant
Japan Display Inc is considering building a plant to supply smartphone screens…
Foxconn looks to build massive iPhone display factory in northern China
Foxconn, the company that assembles the bulk of the world’s iPhones, is discussing…
Japan Display’s reliance on iPhone orders rises
Japan Display Inc, the world’s biggest smartphone LCD maker…
Apple expected to ship up to 65 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c units this year
Display orders for the iPhone 5c are expected to surpass 30 million units…
Sharp to miss March 29 deadline for Qualcomm investment
Sharp Corp said it will miss a March 29 deadline to receive…
Did Tim Cook just get played? Samsung’s stake in Sharp a threat to Apple
The recent investment in Sharp by Samsung can pose a serious threat to Apple…
Global Equities: Apple’s display order reductions about move to IGZO, not demand
Apple has been shifting from using traditional displays to instead use the emerging semiconductor tech IGZO…
Hon Hai’s Terry Gou says investment talks in Sharp still on
Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry, a major supplier of parts to Apple…
Sharp’s output of next-gen Apple iPhone displays falling behind schedule, says source
Sharp Corp has fallen behind schedule on production of screens for Apple…
Apple display spending expected to nearly double to $9 billion in 2012, helped by surging iPad sales
Aided by expected soaring sales of its upcoming next-generation iPad…