Japanese companies Pansonic and Sanyo announced that at today's meeting of its Board of Directors made a decision on signing an agreement to merge the businesses of both companies. And Pansonic company aims to acquire a majority of voting shares through public offers to shareholders absorbed by the company to buy their shares. The proposal relates to the purchase of all shares in Sanyo, including

Panasonic has cleared a final obstacle to taking over Sanyo Electric after Goldman Sachs accepted its latest offer to buy the financial firm's stake in Sanyo, a Japanese business newspaper reported Thursday.

Panasonic and smaller Japanese electronics rival Sanyo are starting talks on a capital and business alliance, aiming to boost each other's strengths by working together in solar cell, battery and other areas, both sides said Friday.

Losing Share, Bleeding Profit but Still a good bet? Boston, MA - February 1, 2008 - Motorola's announcement that it will examine the realignment of its Mobile Device Business unit is the latest in a long list of partnership announcements in the high volume, high R&D, volatile margin handset business, after Sony-Ericsson, Casio-Hitachi, Panasonic-NEC and most recently, Kyocera-Sanyo. Although this

Latest Panasonic FOMA P706ie is 23rd Device in Market Leveraging LiMo Platform™ Technology LONDON, England, TOKYO, Japan, —LiMo Foundation™, the global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, detailed today the 23rd LiMo-compliant handset. The FOMA P706ie from Panasonic Mobile Communications is another commercially shipping model that d...

TOKYO — At first glance, Japanese cellphones are a gadget lover’s dream: ready for Internet and e-mail, they double as credit cards, boarding passes and even body-fat calculators. But it is hard to find anyone in Chicago or London using a Japanese phone like a Panasonic, a Sharp or an NEC. Despite years of dabbling in overseas markets, Japan’s handset makers have little presence beyond the.....

bvlad: Panasonic gets its way and takes over Sanyo

Four Japanese companies - DOCOMO, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Fujitsu have announced their success in developing mobile-terminal platform "LTE-PF", supporting the standard LTE (Long Term Evolution), which can provide the opportunity to download data at speeds up to 100 Mbps sec. (in the downlink and up to 50 Mbit / sec. - in reverse). The first engineering samples of LTE-PF chipset......

Sanyo Electric faces delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after it announced Tuesday that it had understated its losses for the past six years by tens of millions of dollars.

Panasonic said Thursday it has begun a tender offer to take over smaller rival Sanyo Electric for an estimated $4.4 billion, moving closer to create one of the world's biggest electronics makers.