Electronics - consumer
India becomes Sony’s fourth-largest market
09 Jan 2013
Purchase of multi-function devices eating into sales of single-function ones: Accenture study
07 Jan 2013
LG to pump in a whopping $19 bn this year
07 Jan 2013
Almost two-thirds of the investment will be allocated to increase production facilities at the group's electronics businesses and fund research and development of products
China fines Asian LCD cartel for price fixing
05 Jan 2013
Apple Inc fined 1 million yuan by Chinese court
29 Dec 2012
HP takes $8.8 bn charge on Autonomy acquisition
20 Nov 2012
HP, which bought Autonomy for over $10 billion in 2011, said more than $5 billion of the impairment charge has been due to serious accounting improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures prior to the acquisition
Panasonic to book $9.6 billion loss
31 Oct 2012
Panasonic today said it would book a mammoth $9.6-billion net loss in the fiscal year to March due to restructuring costs and writedowns
Panasonic to make India a production hub
01 Oct 2012
Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp plans to export home appliances from India as part of its plans to make the country one of its manufacturing hubs
Consumer electronics maker CCE for $148 million
18 Sep 2012
Sony not to restart manufacturing in India
07 Sep 2012
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