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...Optical fibre is made of glass as thin as a human hair....
...This is the reality that will be inherited by Hiroki Totoki, the group’s chief financial officer who will take over as president in the spring....
...Thus, for the fiscal year that ended in August, the group is forecasting record profits....
...Bankers were hoping the long record of profitability for Bausch & Lomb, which began as an upstate New York optical goods store in the 19th century, would stand it in good stead....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 27. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Paolo Pescatore, analyst at PP Foresight, called some of the features incremental but said the tech group still had a chance to drive a “supercycle” of upgrades....
...In May, Snap became the first leading US tech company to unveil AR glasses, and it bought WaveOptics, a UK-based maker of optical systems for AR headsets, that same month....
...Discovery chief David Zaslav is our Person in the News after his group’s merger with WarnerMedia....
...Japanese companies such as optical product maker Hoya, travel company H.I.S. and trading house Itochu have, within the past two years, decided that the hostile bid is now a legitimate tool for corporate...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...“I see diversity is becoming this purely optical phenomenon. Very little is being done to ensure true inclusion at every level of the value chain.”...
...a 10x optical zoom....
...Its latest sanctions against the Chinese telecoms equipment group, which it accuses of spying, include blacklisting 38 affiliates in 21 countries....
...Today, 38 years later, having morphed into JPMorgan Asset Management UK Limited Multi-Manager Growth C Inc. Units, and with dividends reinvested, each holding is now worth £36,500....
...It is in the process of changing the entity’s name to 27Health Inc, subject to approval from US regulators....
...More than 10,000 of its 80,000 patents are in the US but the Chinese group has found itself in the middle of deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing....
...AAC Technologies fell 2 per cent and Sunny Optical was down 1.5 per cent, putting the Hong Kong-listed Apple suppliers among the Hang Seng’s worst performers for the day....
...That includes the likes of Hong Kong-listed Sunny Optical. A leading supplier of cameras to smartphone makers, it was once popular with investors, who drove its share price up to HK$173 in mid-June....
...In Asia, Foxconn, the main manufacturer of the iPhone, fell 1.7 per cent while smaller suppliers such as AAC Technologies and Sunny Optical dropped 5.4 per cent and 6.7 per cent....
...In Hong Kong, AAC Technologies, which makes speaker components for Apple, added 2.4 per cent and lens supplier Sunny Optical was up 3.2 per cent....
...There have also been several high-profile scandals involving Japanese businesses, including at Toshiba, the technology conglomerate, Olympus, the optical equipment maker, and Takata, the car-component manufacturer...
...Japan’s Nitto Denko, which makes optical films used in smartphone screens, closed 8 per cent higher. Contrast that with this week’s earnings decline at Samsung, its first in seven quarters....
...The fund has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars into American suppliers including Corning, maker of glass for the iPhone’s screen, and Finisar, whose optical components are used in the iPhone...
...On top of slowing smartphone demand, Largan faces an emerging threat from Chinese rivals, including Sunny Optical Technology Group, which hopes to become an Apple supplier....
...This view has hit the share prices of Taiwanese companies that supply the components used for the technology, including wafer-level packaging supplier Xintec and lens makers Genius Electronic Optical and...
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