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Tag: Kozo Takahashi

Did Apple help Foxconn buy Sharp?

Thursday, March 31, 2016 4:55 pmThursday, March 31, 20164 Comments

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

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 9:25 amWednesday, March 30, 20165 Comments

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

Monday, February 29, 2016 2:00 pmMonday, February 29, 20161 Comment

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

Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:45 pm1 Comment

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

Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:56 pmThursday, February 25, 20161 Comment

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

Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:27 amThursday, February 25, 20161 Comment

Sharp’s board on Thursday morning decided to accept a roughly 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion) takeover offer…

Foxconn fast-tracks $5.5 billion Sharp takeover bid

Thursday, February 4, 2016 8:30 am1 Comment

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

Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:50 am3 Comments

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’

Monday, September 28, 2015 8:30 amThursday, November 19, 20153 Comments

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

Monday, September 21, 2015 11:28 am4 Comments

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

Monday, August 24, 2015 2:30 pm1 Comment

Japanese supplier Sharp is negotiating with Hon Hai Precision Industry…

Sharp to replace chairman, president after losses

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:36 pm6 Comments

After posting an annual net loss of Y545 billion ($5.4 billion)…

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