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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Yoda: Here is that release, still tough times for Sharp. After failing to advance far enough toward a manufacturing process goal, Sharp says that it will miss a March 29 deadline to receive the second half of a $120 million investment from chipmaker Qualcomm. In December, the ailing Japanese electronics maker said it reached a partnership with U.S.-based Qualcomm, which agreed to invest $120 million in a project to jointly develop display panels. However, as reported by Reuters, Qualcomm's...
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Re: Which RFG Dealer...
I'm still betting on RJ Young... RJ Young Opens Tennessee Distribution Center On Thursday, May 28, RJ Young (www.rjyoung.com), with help from Mayor A. Keith McDonald, cut the ribbon opening its doors to its new regional distribution center in Bartlett, Tenn. Many local companies came by to see the company's new location, demo room and warehouse facility. "We are very encouraged by the turnout from the business community," said Chip Crunk, president and CEO, RJ Young. "It shows that we made...
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Re: 2090 and Bates Stamping
The launch notice says, "The Bate Stamp Feature for the Aficio 2090/2105 Systems is available for immediate download from the Ricoh Technical Website." If I was successful. the bulletin is attached to this reply.
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Re: RPCS MANUAL?
Here is one that was given to me by the former high volume specialist from Ricoh Bruce Martin
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Re: Western Digital won't seek management role in Toshiba chip business: sources
Wow, this may almost come to an end by August 31st
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Re: Foxconn Lowering Offer for Japan's Sharp
I mentioned this three weeks ago when I saw the draw back from Foxconn. Sharp has no other alternative move but to accept whatever offer comes it's way. Huge loans are due April 1st to the Japanese banks. Wonder if Gou will stay with the same monetary commitment and get all of Sharp or lower the amount and stay with the same percentage from the original deal. If the offer is less, than Sharp will have to re work it's comeback plan, and I'm sure that comeback plan will affect many of the...
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Re: Foxconn Lowering Offer for Japan's Sharp
Article from last night stated that since Foxconn, is offering 900 million less because of debt and year end financials that Samsung is ready to make a last minute offer for Sharp. This is crazy!
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Re: New Ricoh MP C2011SP A3 Color MFP??
The MP C2011SP is a exclusive model for Taiwan/China/European Union. There is references to this model in MP C2003/ MPC2503 service/parts manual. The Ricoh Product code for that model is D237. The D176 (MPC2003) & D177 (MPC2503) are for US. With all that said....That doesn't mean Ricoh could change their mind and release that model in the US. But from the manual, it would look redundant to current gen equivalent models. I'll keep my eye open.
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Re: Toshiba shares fall after report trust banks preparing to sue
Rumor has it, Terry Gou (CEO) Foxconn is interested.
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Foxconn to build US$9 billion chip plant in China with local govt
Taiwan's Foxconn and its Japanese electronics unit Sharp Corp are in the final stages of talks to build an advanced chip plant in Guangdong, China, with a local government, the Nikkei business daily reported. TOKYO: Taiwan's Foxconn , Apple Inc's iPhone assembler, is in the final stages of talks with the local government of the Chinese city of Zhuhai to build a chip plant there with a total investment of about US$9 billion, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday. The total investment...
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Sharp contractors axe 3,000 staff as iPhone sensor output shifts: union
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly 3,000 foreign workers subcontracted to Sharp Corp have been laid off in central Japan, a labour union said, as the firm moves production of some sensors for Apple iPhones to a Chinese plant owned by its parent Foxconn. The labour union said some of the laid off workers were its members. The union is in Mie Prefecture in central Japan, where Sharp's plant is located. The news of the relocation, first reported by the Nikkei business daily, and the layoffs sent Sharp...
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Foxit Announces Universal Windows Platform Agreement with Nexstgo
FREMONT, Calif. , Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Foxit Software , a leading software provider of fast, affordable, and secure PDF solutions, today announced a partnership with Nexstgo to have PhantomPDF preinstalled as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in all Nexstgo commercial PC products. With this new agreement, PhantomPDF will be available to Nexstgo customers across all compatible Microsoft Windows devices, including personal computers and notebooks. "We are thrilled at the opportunity...
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BTA’s ProFinance 3.0 to Be Held March 26-27
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: February 1, 2019 Brent Hoskins Executive Director Business Technology Association (816) 303-4040 BTA’s ProFinance 3.0 to Be Held March 26-27 Learn the updated industry model at BTA’s popular finance workshop Kansas City, MO — On March 26-27 in Duluth, Georgia (an Atlanta suburb), the Business Technology Association (BTA) will host its ProFinance 3.0 workshop at BTA member dealership Standard Office Systems. Over the last 17...
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MSPWorx Launches Managed ITSM Partner Program Providing MSPs with New Recurring Revenue Opportunities in the Mid-Market
SCOTTSDALE, AZ , Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Solarwinds Empower MSP Conference - MSPWorx, a division of CareWorx Corporation, pioneering the Managed ITSM model to the mid-market, today announced their new MSPWorx Partner Program. CareWorx, one of the top 50 global managed service providers, created MSPWorx earlier this year as a separate division to deliver what it calls Managed ITSM, which includes: 24x7 Service Desk, GrandCentral (ServiceNow-as-a-Service), Remote System Administration...
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Mercury Print Installs Xerox Trivor 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press With Color Hike Technology
Mercury Print Installs Xerox Trivor 2400 High Fusion Inkjet Press With Color Hike Technology NORWALK, Conn. - September 20, 2018 - The average book order at Mercury Print Productions of Rochester, N.Y., is less than 10 units. With 200 to 300 new orders placed every day, Mercury needed a cost-effective, high-speed inkjet device that could integrate with its automated print-on-demand (POD) system and deliver greater production flexibility and high image quality on a range of paper stocks. The...
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2nd Watch Named CRN® Triple Crown Award Winner
SEATTLE, Oct. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 2nd Watch has earned the 2018 Triple Crown Award from CRN ®, a brand of The Channel Company . The AWS Premier Partner and Microsoft Azure Gold partner is one of only 46 solution providers in North America to meet CRN’s Triple Crown milestones for revenue, growth and technical expertise. 2nd Watch is the largest independently owned US-based cloud-native service provider, with 200,000 instances under management. The CRN Triple Crown Award is just the...
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Sharp lifts annual profit outlook, to retire some preferred shares
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp nudged its full-year profit outlook higher on Tuesday amid a turnaround under the ownership of Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, and said it plans to retire some preferred shares. The Osaka-based electronics maker, a supplier to Apple Inc, said it expects an operating profit of 112 billion yen ($993.88 million) in the year through next March compared with a previous 110 billion yen forecast. The company has slashed costs after being taken over by Foxconn,...
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Sharp doubles M&A budget to sell more printers abroad
OSAKA -- Sharp plans to expand its overseas sales network for printers by doubling funds to acquire vendors. Lagging behind Canon and Fuji Xerox in a saturated market for multifunction printers, the electronics maker has adopted a strategy of purchasing others' sales channels rather than develop them on its own. Sharp will set aside about 12 billion yen ($108 million) for mergers and acquisitions this fiscal year, targeting vendors, especially those strong in corporate sales, in such markets...
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Sharp’s Recovery Spotlights the Strength of Corporate Alliances Between Japan and Taiwan
The Intent of Sharp’s Offensive and Defensive Strategies Sharp and Toshiba, two large corporations that once epitomized Japan as a consumer electronics superpower, could hardly differ more in their performance and outlook. On June 5, Sharp announced offensive and defensive strategies of issuing up to ¥200 billion in new shares to improve its financial standing and of acquiring Toshiba’s PC business. Although it later scuttled the stock plan due to market instability arising from recent trade...
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Sharp Q1 operating profit soars 45 pct on growth in electronic devices
TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - Sharp Corp reported on Tuesday a 45 percent rise in first-quarter operating profit as revenue at its electronic devices segment soared, cementing its recovery under the ownership of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (Foxconn). The company said its operating profit was 24.8 billion yen ($223 million) for the April-June period, compared with 17.11 billion yen a year earlier. Seven analysts on average expected operating profit of 18.8 billion yen, according...
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MFP Industry News August 5th 2018
Xerox and Fujifilm battle update - Nikkei Asian newspaper interviewed Shigetaka Komori, CEO of Fujifilm; "Fujifilm can grow without the acquisition (of Xerox), which does not mean we will lose our future." o is continuing its attempts to acquire Xerox, but has denied it will make any compromise, even if it fails in the bid. o "We would not go as far as to raise our terms of acquisition, set in January, to realize the deal." o "It will be better if we can buy Xerox", but the acquisition "is...
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HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS
HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS Canon relaunches solution for healthcare - announced its Nuance eCopy ShareScan Services for healthcare - advertised as document capture onramp that integrates with iManage and Epic software - allow Canon imageRUNNER MFPs to scan into these healthcare solutions - provide compliance for HIPAA and GDPR regulations - use OCR to convert images to HL7 protocol - (this solution competes with the Konica Minolta/Nuance AutoStore MD solution, which does even more as it can be...
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The Copier Industry Fast Forward Twenty Years
The year is 2039. It's hard to believe that it's been 15 years since the mighty Xerox Corporation folded. One remembers that statement in December of 2018 that touted Xerox "Unable to Adjust". My how the mighty have fallen. It wasn't only Xerox that fell to the paperless society that we now see today. Canon Let's take a trip back to late 2022, it was late in November that Canon announced that they were going to cease to manufacturing A3 multi-functional devices. That decision was made...
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I-ON Communications Announces MoU With Singapore-based Hyper Resources Interactive & Third Quarter Earnings Release Date
SEOUL, South Korea , Oct. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- I-ON Communications Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of I-ON Communications Corp. (OTCQB: IONI) ("I-ON" or the "Company"), www.i-on.net , a Seoul, South Korea -based global enterprise software company focused on delivering leading CMS and unstructured data management products and solutions to mid- and large-scale enterprises, announced today that it has executed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore -based Hyper Resources...
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Emtec Recognized 4th Consecutive Year for Excellence in Managed IT Services
RADNOR, Pa. (PRWEB) February 20, 2019 Emtec®, a leading IT consulting firm that enables end-to-end digital transformation, announced today that CRN® , a brand of The Channel Company, has named Emtec to its 2019 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list for the fourth consecutive year in the MSP Elite 150 category. This annual list recognizes North American solution providers with innovative approaches to managed services that help customers improve operational efficiencies, maximize return on...
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FUJIFILM DIMATIX TO SHOWCASE INNOVATIVE INKJET TECHNOLOGIES AT LOPEC 2019 IN GERMANY
FUJIFILM DIMATIX TO SHOWCASE INNOVATIVE INKJET TECHNOLOGIES AT LOPEC 2019 IN GERMANY Lebanon, NH, March 19, 2019 – FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc. will demonstrate its piezoelectric inkjet technology and its high performance MEMS based drop-on-demand printheads at the upcoming LOPEC trade fair for printed electronics, March 20 – 21, 2019, in Munich, Germany. Within booth numbers 402 and 404, in Hall B0, FUJIFILM Dimatix will showcase the Dimatix Materials Printer DMP-2850 , a cost-effective,...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of February 2015)
Do you want to relive the madness from 5 years ago when Sharp was sinking fast? If so we've got many of those threads in this weeks edition of what went on in the copier industry 5 years ago. Foxconn and the people have done an excellent job in rebuilding the brand, the programs and adding quality dealers! Enjoy These Threads from 5 Years Ago This Week! Bid Tabulation for Canon, Lanier & Toshiba for 180 plus Copiers Art Post · 2/7/1511:41 PM...
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Sharp reports last quarter’s earnings
- Sharp is division of Hon Hai Precision of Taiwan, also known as Foxconn - total sales down 1.2% to 634.9 billion yen - Operating profit was up 38.5% to 29.4 billion yen - (did not break out earnings for printer/MFP division)
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2015)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects. 1. Promote yourselves and our business daily on social media Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005 Art Post · 4/12/157:15 PM . Built-in Wi-Fi in printers could make a tech's 4/18/05...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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CompassMSP Acquires FL-Based Managed IT Services Provider Focused on Legal Industry
MIAMI, January 15, 2020 (Newswire.com) - CompassMSP , a leading managed service provider (MSP), is proud to announce the acquisition of Western Digitech, a regional leader in the legal IT services market. Since 1994, Western Digitech has provided enterprise-level IT support, practice, and solutions to law firms and other small and medium-sized businesses throughout Florida. This acquisition is part of CompassMSP’s mission to make enterprise-level IT services accessible to small and...
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Japan's Sharp Halves Full-Year Profit Forecast as Virus Hits Tech Demand
TOKYO — Japan's Sharp Corp, an Apple Inc supplier, cut its full-year profit forecast by 48% on Friday, as demand for technology devices took a hit from the coronavirus outbreak. Sharp, which makes sensors, camera modules and screens for Apple's iPhones, expected annual operating profit in the year ended in March to come in at 52 billion yen ($489 million), down from its previous forecast of 100 billion yen. The company, a unit of Taiwan's Foxconn, said the coronavirus outbreak hurt...
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Asia Pacific Demand for Cloud Solutions Reaches Record High in Q1, ISG Index™ Finds
SYDNEY, Australia, May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asia Pacific’s demand for cloud-based as-a-service solutions soared to a new record in the first quarter, even as demand for managed services slumped in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest state-of-the-industry report from Information Services Group ( ISG ) (Nasdaq: III ), a leading global technology research and advisory firm. The ISG Index™, which measures commercial outsourcing contracts with annual contract...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of March 2015)
I arrived back in town from Aruba late on Monday. Yup, I took a vacation and rarely accessed the internet! Yay for me. To say the least I came back to state that is in pure panic mode with corona virus. Tuesday was not so bad as four opportunities went HOT. Did the work that I had to and subsequent days produced almost nothing, no email responses, no phone call responses and in four days I was only able to set four meetings for next week. Starting on Monday I'll be sending ZOOM requests for...
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Sharp gobbles NEC as Japan's display giants team up to take on Europe and North America
Not copier news but still interesting as Terry Gou continues to acquire Japanese display giant Sharp will gobble NEC's display business in a push to expand into North America and Europe. Under the terms of the deal, Sharp will acquire two-thirds of NEC Display Solutions (NDS) and form a joint venture to take the two companies' products to market. NDS makes LCD displays, professional projectors, and digital cinema products and solutions. The company has a sales of 63.2 billion yen ($571m) but...
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NEWS: Poland’s Digit Pack Moves to Corrugated Digital with EFI Nozomi C18000
NEWS -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Innovative Polish Company Moves Business Core to Corrugated Digital Printing with EFI Nozomi C18000 FREMONT, California -- May 6, 2020 -- Digit Pack, a relatively new company in the corrugated sector in Poland, has invested in the EFI™ Nozomi C18000 six-color, single-pass LED inkjet printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc . The new printer will allow Digit Pack to expand its business in corrugated digital printing, partaking in the exciting, growing...
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Sharp bolsters defense with promotion of cost-cutter Nomura
OSAKA -- Sharp will promote Chairman and CEO Tai Jeng-Wu's top deputy as president, creating a two-man leadership team as the company faces the challenge of restoring finances battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Executive Vice President Katsuaki Nomura will become president and COO effective June 25, the company said Tuesday. Tai will vacate his post as president but remain chairman and CEO. "We'll form a strong tag team to once again restore" the company, Nomura said during Tuesday's...
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Re: Service code SC990 on GelSprinters
SC990-Waste Tank Full Sensor Defective. See attached PDF taken directly from the Service manual.... E-mail me for any additional help.
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Re: Smart Accounting
Here is the Smart Accounting Admin manual. Real estate and legal environments are going to love this software if it works like the brochure says. However, I ordered this software from Savin two weeks ago, and it is still not in...we were told that it has to be shipped directly from the third-party that developed it. I'd recommend we be careful when promising setup...this is really slowing down my copier delivery! Hopefully, I'll get this installed next week and get some face-to-face time...
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Re: Challenges when upgrading from 3.3 to 3.6
In the couple cases where I updated the software, I ended up reinstalling windows and starting fresh. Ricoh provided me this information, but I haven't had the need to try it since.... HKey-local-machine/software/classes/installer/products will have a number of 32 digit keys. Open each one. If it refers to Plotbase, Scanbase, Apache, PlotClient ,PlotClient Web, or PlotClient HDI delete that key. If it refers to something else LEAVE IT ALONE. After removing these keys, as well as the RW240...
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Re: Foxconn Buys 10% of Sharp Corp
Sharp is a big company and its businesses operate pretty autonomously. Plus its pretty common for panel makers to partner-up to share the costs and mutually benefit from the manufacturing scale. If anything, its a testament to how much $ Foxconn is making.
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Re: Foxconn Buys 10% of Sharp Corp
We all know Sharps main focus is not office equipment, the question is will Sharp move further away from office equipment with the foxconn purchase. I'm thinking yes...others?
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Re: Foxconn Buys 10% of Sharp Corp
Has anyone seen the documentary special on TV covering the history of FoxConn....it was amazing to watch all the people acting like robots and elbow to elbow. Then they actually put up nets around the building because workers were jumping off the roof and committing suicide because of the harsh working conditions. It just like it is in the copier business. :-) You can also find many videos online....watch them....it almost does not entice someone to buy an ipad.
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Re: Foxconn Buys 10% of Sharp Corp
I thought I hd heard of foxconn before, thanx for the memories. Poor people jumping off, thats a dam shame!
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Re: Airprint
couple of items here, it's my understanding that the new "istyle" devices (anything with a "2" as the lasy digit in the model number) will accomodate air print, however the system does need pdf print direct and PSIII module. I'm trying to reverify this as I write this. This is for Kiwispike: If you use the lantronix print server do you still need to have a ps module in the device? Thanx Art
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
The share price of Sharp Corp. rose 9.13 percent to close at the day's high of 215 Japanese yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday. The rally was seen as a positive response to Taipei-based Hon Hai Group Chairman and founder Terry Gou's announcement in Tokyo a day earlier that he is committed to finalizing an agreement to take a capital stake in the struggling Japanese electronics firm. Speaking at a news conference for a Taiwanese trade delegation visiting Japan, Gou said the details of...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Sharp Corp. (6753), the Japanese panel maker selling a stake to Foxconn Technology Group, fell in Tokyo trading after its credit ratings were cut and a report said the company offered to lower the price of the shares. Sharp dropped as much as 8.1 percent to 182 yen and traded at 188 yen as of 1 p.m., extending the Osaka-based company’s decline this year to 72 percent. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317), Foxconn’s flagship company, rose to the highest level in four months in Taipei after...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
The 100-year-old inventor of mechanical pencils needs to pen a new plan to make it to 101. Sharp Corp. (6753), Japan’s biggest liquid-crystal display maker, put up its Osaka headquarters and some plants as collateral last week to win bank loans after its credit ratings were cut to junk. The supplier to Apple Inc. (AAPL) is also renegotiating a stock sale to Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group as it tries to recover from record losses and a 70 percent slump in shares this year. Within six...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Sharp Corp. (6753) may lose more money than it forecast this year, analysts predict, increasing pressure on the struggling Japanese electronics maker to raise funds and complete a stake sale to Foxconn Technology Group. The company likely will report a net loss of 295 billion yen ($3.8 billion) for the year ending March 31, according to the average estimates of seven analysts compiled by Bloomberg. Sharp last month forecast a 250 billion-yen net loss, eight times greater than originally...