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...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...“Are friends electric? Only mine’s broke down,” once sang Gary Numan about a prostitute service robot of the future....
...Its Chevrolet Bolt concept car, revealed on Monday, highlighted the company’s determination to challenge Elon Musk’s Tesla in the growing electric vehicle market....
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Hermès also worked with the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris to create a hand-built Rolls-Royce Phantom, custom-made to the hotel’s specifications....
...to China’s Haier; and Sony’s sale of its half of a liquid crystal display venture to the enterprise’s co-owner, Samsung of South Korea....
...The station services factories belonging to Foxconn and other global brands including Hitachi, Samsung, Siemens, Sanyo, IBM, Philips and Toshiba, according to its website....
...The move follows the company’s Y664.8bn purchase in 2010 of remaining stakes in Sanyo Electric and Panasonic Electric Works, in which it owned 50% and 51% respectively....
...Panasonic was a bright spot, gaining 1.9 per cent to Y929 on its plans to sell its subsidiary Sanyo Electric’s household appliance business to Haier of China....
...It follows the company’s Y664.8bn acquisition of the remaining stakes in Sanyo Electric and Panasonic Electric Works, in which it owned 50 per cent and 51 per cent respectively....
...Chubu Electric Power climbed 4 per cent to Y1,533 and Tohoku Electric Power surged 6.3 per cent to Y1,141. Tepco was up 2.9 per cent to Y325....
...Yahoo nabbed y.co.uk and Virgin has v.co.uk. BP will get bp.co.uk, the Football Association fa.co.uk, British Airways ba.co.uk, Burger King bk.co.uk, and Yo! Sushi yo.co.uk....
...But since then, Mitsubishi has left the field; Kyocera has bought Sanyo’s phone business....
...Nothing the company has done, in launching a tender offer for the 49 per cent of Sanyo Electric it does not own, is illegal. Yet the ¥138-a-share offer, which began this week, leaves a nasty taste....
...After media reports on Thursday that Panasonic planned buy the remainder of two key subsidiaries, Sanyo and Panasonic Electric Works (PEW), Panasonic stock slid by as much as 11 per cent....
...Toyota is launching its Entune infotainment system with the new Prius V hybrid car this year....
...Consolidation in the industry accelerated in 2008 when Kyocera bought Sanyo’s mobile phone unit and Mitsubishi Electric withdrew from the sector....
...It was called EN-V (for Electric Networked Vehicle) and came in three variants with Chinese names: Xiao (“laugh”), Jiao (“pride”) and Miao (“magic”) “Miao will transport you magically and seamlessly through...
...The success of the Flip style of camcorder has encouraged rivals such as Kodak, Samsung and Sanyo to launch similar devices, but the SlideHD is the first low-cost camcorder to feature such a large HD widescreen...
...TSMC added 1.6 per cent to NT$63,5 while Mediatek, Taiwan’s largest chip designer, rose 1.8 per cent to NT$570....
...Wednesday, a platform that will deliver video, music on demand, photo browsing, news services, social networking and other applications through internet-enabled TVs and Blu-ray players from Mitsubishi, Sanyo...
...Sony , which makes about a quarter of its revenues in Europe, fell 2.1 per cent to Y3,045 and Sanyo Electric , where more than half its sales come from overseas, slid 2.6 per cent to Y150....
...Japanese companies seldom ravage their acquisitions: witness how Sanyo Electric will retain its identity within Panasonic....
...Sanyo Electric’s shares plunged 20 per cent on Thursday after Panasonic started its tender offer for the company – in spite of the price having been public for nearly a year....
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