Earnings alert: Camera sales boost Matsushita profits
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Plus: Verizon sales rise, led by wireless growth...Motorola shares rise after profit beats estimates...Electronics sales push Sony to profit...CNET reports deeper loss.
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Camera maker Nikon sees profits for the last three months of 2006 rise 60%, helped by digital SLR sales.
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Capacity at Japanese plant to increase 7.5% to meet demand from digital camera, cell phone makers. TOKYO  - Toshiba Corp.
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Eastman Kodak Co.  on Wednesday backed its near and long-term profit forecasts, saying sales of digital products, such as cameras and medical imaging, are growing faster than expected and helping to offset rapidly declining sales of its traditional film business.
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Electronics giant Sony has reported a fall in profits, in contrast to strong gains seen by Matsushita and Canon. Sony, which blamed a fall in sales of televisions and portable audio players, saw half-year
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Sony cuts full-year forecast by 3%, Matsushita warns on effects of high oil prices and competition. TOKYO  - Sony Corp. Thursday reported a quarterly profit gain thanks to the &quot;Spider-Man 2&quot; hit movie
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Japan's Sony Corp. on Thursday posted record high second quarter net profits, helped by brisk sales of digital cameras and laptop computers which offset heavy losses from the PlayStation 3.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 1--TOKYO -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. revised upward  Thursday its earnings forecast for the current business year on brisk sales of  flat-panel TVs, saying its group sales are now expected to hit an all-time  high of 9 trillion yen.
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InfoWorld - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) is refreshing its&#160;Toughbook rugged laptop PC line&#160;and aiming for a big jump in international sales of the computers over the next three years.
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Eastman Kodak Co. EK.N, the world's  top maker of photographic film, on Wednesday said its third  quarter profit rose, boosted by discontinued operations. Sales  were boosted by the weaker dollar and its key growth area of  digital photography.  Rochester, New York-based Kodak, which one year ago announced a  dramatic strategy shift toward digital cameras and printing and  away from film, posted net income of $479 million, or $1.67 a  share, including $1.51 from discontinued operations. A year  earlier its profit was $122 million, or 42 cents a share.     Multimedia versions of Reuters Top News are now available for:   * 3000 Xtra    : visit http://topnews.session.rservices.com  *  BridgeStation: view story .134  For more information on Top  News, visit  http://topnews.reuters.com
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Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd  posted a surprise 3 percent gain in quarterly operating profit on cost cuts and strong sales of cameras and TVs, but cited fears about the U.S. economy and kept its full year outlook unchanged.
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Japanese stocks may rise after companies including Nintendo Co. and AOC Holdings Inc. raised their full-year earnings forecasts. ``Expectations of a strong Christmas sale season are
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The Nikkei average rose 1.38 percent on   Monday, hitting its highest levels in more than three months,   as exporters such as Canon Inc. 7751.T gained on a slightly   stronger than expected U.S. jobs report.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., better known for its Panasonic brand, will soon start international sales of a high-end DVD recorder that offers network connectivity, the company said Wednesday.
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Plus: Camera sales boost Matsushita profits...Verizon sales rise, led by wireless growth...Motorola shares rise after profit beats estimates...Electronics sales push Sony to profit.
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The Nikkei average rose 1.38 percent on   Monday to its highest level in more than three months on gains   in exporters such as Canon Inc. after U.S. stocks rose on a   report showing U.S. job growth was slightly stronger than   expected.
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Strong sales of digital cameras and business machines helped lift fourth-quarter profits at Japanese electronics company Canon.