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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Sony Corp. Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. agreed to divest their liquid-crystal display businesses to a government-backed fund amid mounting competition from South Korean and Taiwanese producers.

    The companies will spin off and merge the units to create Japan Display K.K. next year, the three Tokyo-based electronics makers said today. The government-backed Innovation Network Corp. of Japan will own 70 percent of the venture after a 200 billion yen ($2.6 billion) investment, while Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi will split the remaining 30 percent, they said.

    Old news, but really fun.

    Via: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-31/sony-toshiba-hitachi-to-merge-lcd-businesses-form-state-backed-venture.html

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Current news:

    The Bank of Japan surprised markets Tuesday by announcing it would buy another 10-trillion yen in bonds, pushing the yen to its lowest rate against the dollar since December.

    Japan, UK and US economies are leading the pack of doomed.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Next one, Elpida :

    Japan’s largest maker of dynamic random access memory, the most common chip in computers, needs government backing to stay in business as South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. profitably diversified while chip prices collapsed, analysts said.

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