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...It has been involved in the acquisition of a range of Japanese industrial gems, including Sony’s Vaio laptop business and the defence equipment subsidiary of NEC....
...Japanese manufacturers including NEC, Fujitsu and Sony have a long history in telecoms equipment but have struggled to compete against Huawei, which has built a vertically integrated supply chain giving...
...Tech groups from Sony, Fujitsu and NEC are aware that they cannot compete against “Gafa” — Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — on the global market for cloud services in terms of scale, volumes of data...
...Sony, meanwhile, has launched a $3.7bn offer to buy out shareholders in its lucrative financial services business, while NEC last month sealed a merger with Japan’s largest telecoms operator NTT....
...Tianma, which bought NEC’s LCD business, is making inroads in the market for small and midsize panels for smartphones....
...Whatever Mr Loeb is preparing, Sony is better equipped this time. And so is Japan Inc, four years since the introduction of the country’s first corporate governance and stewardship codes....
...For similar positions last year, Sony was offering ¥218,000 and ¥251,000....
...In 2012, Sony was involved in government-led talks over merging its battery business with a joint venture between Nissan and NEC....
...Sony has invested in ZMP, a start-up making robot cars, to develop self-driving vehicle technologies....
...a rival bid by US private equity group KKR in 2012 to buy a majority stake in Renesas Electronics — a byproduct of government-orchestrated mergers of the chip units of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC...
...It has epitomised Japan Inc’s problems – endless restructuring, struggles to move from analogue to digital, vulnerability to a strong yen. Yet the sector has gained 14 per cent in the past year....
...from Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi....
...Last year it became the majority owner of Japan Display, a company created by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi that makes small liquid-crystal displays....
...NEC Casio Mobile Communications, a maker of mobile handsets created by NEC, Casio and Hitachi, fell short of its sales plan by 44 per cent last year, and one banker describes the operation as a “mess”....
...Sony, the consumer electronics group, fell 2.2 per cent to Y1023, Mazda Motor dipped 2 per cent to Y97 and chipmaker NEC lost 4.5 per cent to Y107....
...Renesas is itself the product of past mergers between the LSI businesses of Hitachi, NEC and Mitsubishi....
...Sony climbed 1.7 per cent to Y1,407, while Toshiba added 2.7 per cent to Y344....
...In electronics components, production has been hit at Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Canon, Nikon, NEC and Sony....
...Among companies reporting earnings this week, NEC climbed 3.4 per cent to Y246 and Canon rose 0.7 per cent to Y4,120....
...NEC finally announced last month that it would sell half the operation to Lenovo of China, but that the venture would keep the NEC brand....
...Sony has been by far the most aggressive outsourcer....
...Sony , which receives more than a fifth of its sales from the US, increased 4.4 per cent to Y2,423....
...Sony’s net profit forecast for the year to March 2011, for example, assumes an exchange rate of Y125 to the euro, but the market rate has already risen to just over Y113....
...Imagination expects to see a strong rise in royalty revenues this year after NEC, the Japanese group, deployed its licences in its global brand....
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