LG.Philips surges amid stake sale talk
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Shares in LG.Philips LCD Co Ltd  surged on Friday on market talk Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial was buying a stake in the South Korean flat screen maker, but both firms poured cold water on the talk.
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Shares of medical device maker Guidant  Corp. GDT.N jumped on Tuesday after a report saying the  company was in advanced talks to be acquired by health products  maker Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N for more than $24 billion.
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LG.Philips LCD, the world&#39;s second-largest liquid crystal display (LCD) maker, said Tuesday that it has developed the world&#39;s biggest active-matrix (AM) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display
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Dutch Philips Electronics on Tuesday sounded a cautious note on its chip unit as it reported a third-quarter operating profit of 1.02 billion euros, which just exceeded expectations when excluding a 635 million euros non-tax gain.
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Dutch Philips Electronics   missed analysts forecasts on Monday with second-quarter net  profit depressed by price pressure in LCD displays, but sales  and operating profit rose faster than expected and it announced  a 1.5 billion euro (&#36;1.90 billion) share buyback.
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Shares in Nokia surged on Thursday after the world's largest handset maker reported a surge in profits and expanding market share.
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Philips Electronics beat expectations  with strong cash flow and fourth quarter earnings in most units  and unveiled a share buyback, but warned on Thursday that the  world economy made it cautious.
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The FTSE 100 has climbed as a surge by US shares gives a boost to European markets. Shire Pharmaceuticals SHP.L jumped after winning approval for a key drug and consumer goods giant Unilever ULVR.
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High-level executives from Japan's Sharp  Corp. (6753.T) traveled to South Korea last week to visit  LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd. (034220.KS), as Philips  seeks  a buyer for its 32.9 percent stake in the Korean LCD firm,  Taiwan media reported on Friday.
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Hon Hai , Taiwan's top electronics parts maker, is likely to buy part of the stake Philips  wants to sell in South Korea's LG.Philips LCD , local newspapers reported on Saturday.
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SEOUL, Oct 19 Asia Pulse - LG.Philips LCD Co. (KSE:034220), the world&#39;s second-largest maker of liquid crystal display (LCD), said Tuesday it has developed the world&#39;s largest organic light emitting diode
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(InfoWorld) - Koninklijke Philips Electronics has completed the sale of an 80.1 percent stake in its chip division to a group of private investment houses, the company said Saturday. The stake in NXP Semiconductors, theÂ new nameÂ of the chip unit,Â was sold to a groupÂ including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Silver Lake Partners, and AlpInvest Partners. Philips expects to take in â¬6.4 billion ($8.12 billion) in cash from the sale, after taxes. The European electronics giant will keep a 19.9 percent share of the business. Philips said the deal places the value of NXP at â¬8.3 billion. There have been a number of chip industry deals this year, including aÂ $17.6 billion offer for Freescale SemiconductorÂ last month. In July,Â Intel soldÂ its communications and application processor business to Marvell Technology Group for $600 million, while earlier this year,Â PMC-Sierra acquiredÂ the storage semiconductor business formerly owned by Agilent Technologies for $425 million.
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Tech stocks such as flat-screen maker  LG.Philips drove Asian markets higher on Monday, while optimism  about the Japanese economy lifted Tokyo shares and kept the yen  at a five-year high against the dollar.
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Philips Electronics, Europe&#39;s largest maker of CD players, said Thursday that it had sold its 3 percent stake in Vivendi Universal, owner of the world&#39;s biggest music company.
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LG.Philips LCD (nyse: LPL - news - people ) issued its first earnings announcement since a $1 billion initial public offering in July, and the news is not dazzlingly.
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Philips, Europe&#39;s largest maker of consumer electronics, has reported a higher-than-expected third-quarter operating profit. But the company is cautious about the future, warning that high oil prices and unrest in Iraq were hitting demand.
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics has completed the sale of an 80.1 percent stake in its chip division to a group of private investment houses, the company said Saturday.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.