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How do you make money showing a wildly popular video of lions getting punked by some buffalo? According to Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), the trick is to anticipate which videos will go viral and then bring in advertisers before they do. Three years after paying $1.65 billion for YouTube Inc.,...
Posted on August 25, 2009 3:55 PM
Sharp Corp. and Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) have agreed on plans for a long-anticipate LCD joint venture. The Japanese electronics makers have been contemplating the venture for well over a year, but until now, no deal had been finalized. Here are the details: Sharp will in October begin operating a Sakai...
Posted on July 31, 2009 3:11 PM
Ericsson AB's (NASDAQ:ERIC) president and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg may need to make good on comments he made in April. The Swedish firm's JV with Japan's Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd., says it will need €100 million ($136 million) by March.A Sony spokeswoman told Reuters that details...
Posted on May 19, 2009 11:55 AM
Some bold words were spoken by Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) chief executive Howard Stringer. He thinks that if the Japanese media conglomerate had used a different strategy with its technology, it may have beaten Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in the music market.Speaking to Nikkei Electronics Asia, Stringer (pictured) said that "customers couldn't...
Posted on May 12, 2009 12:15 PM
The overcrowded Japanese electronics market has seen tens of thousands of layoffs as firms try to cope with the recession. Panasonic Corp. is trying to kick off the M&A wave by buying Sanyo Electric Co. But that takeover has stalled as the firms announced a combined 16,200 job cuts.Still, a...
Posted on February 20, 2009 3:51 PM
As companies realign their priorities to better reflect economic realities, joint ventures appear to be a popular area of focus. Over the past few weeks, we've seen a number of companies delay, restructure or abandon JVs altogether. The most high profile in the group is Kuwait Petrochemical Industries Co., which...
Posted on January 30, 2009 12:40 PM
Tuesday's news confirmed what reports speculated since March. Sony Corp. is acquiring the 50% stake in its Sony BMG joint venture with Bertelsmann AG it didn't own for $1.2 billion. In March, Bertelsmann CEO Hartmut Ostrowski hired Morgan Stanley to conduct a global strategic review of the German media giant...
Posted on August 5, 2008 1:11 PM
We haven't heard much from Missouri politicians in the last week on the proposed acquisition of Anheuser-Busch Cos. by the Brazilian-Belgian InBev SA. But local Republicans and Democrats alike have said they're against it, and Budweiser fans in St. Louis and around the country are doing their best to drum...
Posted on June 27, 2008 2:43 PM
On Wednesday, Toshiba Corp., Sony Corp. and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) made their joint venture official. The agreement, which was first announced in October, calls for manufacturing high-performance semiconductors for game consoles, including the "Cell Broadband...
Posted on February 20, 2008 10:26 AM
The gaming industry is built on alliances; also read about corporate venture groups and the value of business process outsourcing.
Posted on April 15, 2007 6:44 AM
The business world's most perceptive thinker reminded companies to concentrate on what they do best and collaborate on the rest.
Posted on February 15, 2007 1:44 AM
Common cause (from Corporate Dealmaker)
As some recent deals demonstrate, what once seemed unlikely now seems inevitable. But that doesn't mean everyone's pedaling along together in perfect harmony.
Posted on June 15, 2006 7:00 PM
Joint Ventures: electronics Technology companies have been teaming up to design and manufacture electronic components for more than three decades. The result is a huge web of JVs consisting of partnerships such as the ones that link Royal Philips Electronics NV and NEC Corp.; Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics...
Posted on February 15, 2006 1:06 PM
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