LCD TV pioneer Sharp loses market lead
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Sharp Corp., which helped propel the market for liquid-crystal display televisions, is no longer the world's leading maker of the flat-panel TVs, according to two market research companies.
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Japanese electronics conglomerate Toshiba  Corp  said it will buy large liquid crystal displays  from Sharp Corp  as part of an alliance likely to help  spark a realignment of the flat panel TV industry.
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Japanese electronics rivals Toshiba and Sharp are joining forces in the liquid crystal display business, company officials said Friday, the latest development in the intensifying competition in flat-panel TVs.
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Sharper Image Corp. (Nasdaq: SHRP) on Monday lowered its earnings guidance after holiday sales failed to meet expectations. The San Francisco retailer said earnings in the fourth quarter, which ends Jan. 31
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Japan's Sharp Corp. plans to spend up to 200 billion yen (&#36;1.91 billion) to build a cutting-edge domestic plant to make liquid crystal display panels for flat-screen TVs, a business newspaper reported on Sunday.
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BOSTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Shares of Sharper Image Corp. tumbled Monday after the gadget retailer sharply cut its views for the current quarter because of &quot;disappointing&quot; holiday sales.
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Shares of electronics maker Sony Corp.  slid to a five-week low on Friday after it cut its profit  target due to sharply falling prices of televisions and other  key products, shaking investor confidence.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. plans to spend up to  200 billion yen ($1.91 billion) to build a cutting-edge  domestic plant to make liquid crystal display panels for  flat-screen TVs, a business newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Struggling consumer electronics maker Pioneer Corp  said it would raise 41.4 billion yen ($357 million) by issuing new shares to Sharp Corp , making Sharp its top shareholder with a 14.3 percent stake.
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Flat-screen maker LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd.  (034220.KS) reported a record quarterly loss on Tuesday, hit by  crumbling panel prices, and forecast a meaningful recovery only  in the fourth quarter.
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Sharp Corp. has developed a 65-inch (1.66 metres) liquid crystal display (LCD) colour television under its AQUOS brand, the world's largest.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. on Tuesday posted a 11.4 percent rise in quarterly profit on strong sales of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and mobile phones and left its full-year outlook unchanged.
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DonÂt buy that high-definition TV yet. Competition may force the prices down further.
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Japanese chips-to-computers conglomerate,  Fujitsu Ltd., said on Sunday it is in talks with Sharp Corp.,  the world's largest maker of LCD televisions, to sell its  loss-making LCD panel operations.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Monday it  will buy Fujitsu Ltd.'s liquid crystal display (LCD) business,  the latest consolidation in the fast-growing but highly  competitive market for thin displays.
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The electronics manufacturer Sharp Corp. reported an 18 percent gain in profit for the third fiscal quarter Tuesday on healthy demand for liquid crystal display television sets and mobile phones with digital cameras.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had developed a 65-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) television, the world's biggest, in a bid to break into the large flat-panel TV market dominated by plasma display (PDP) makers.