Sony enters agreement planned to offload battery business by March 2017

Although ranked close to the top 100 on the 2015 Fortune Global 500 list, and widely recognized as one of the world’s leading electronic products manufacturers, as well as an entertainment and gaming juggernaut, Sony’s had its trouble reaping profits from certain business segments and sub-segments of late.The mobile communications division, including long-struggling ...

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Microsoft announces all-cash $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn

For all its recent mobile failings, Microsoft remains one of the world’s largest, most profitable businesses, and the only way to continue growing is through service diversification, mergers and acquisitions.As such, it should probably come as no shocker that Redmond just entered into a “definitive agreement” likely to see it snap up social networking giant LinkedIn by the end of the year. This follows closely after another relatively high-profile purchase,

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Nokia might be looking to get into the smartwatch game with Withings acquisition

Not exactly an adherent of the “strike while the iron is hot” philosophy, Nokia continues to take its sweet time before unveiling concrete smartphone-designing comeback plans.In the meantime however, the Finnish multinational communications and information technology company didn’t hesitate to spend some of that Microsoft-obtained money on Alcatel-Lucent and Withings.The latter acquisition is ...

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Foxconn buys Sharp for a fraction of the price discussed just last month

It’s not easy to negotiate a good deal when you come off years of bad investments, operating losses and strategic mistakes making you lose touch with market trends and innovations, so let’s not act surprised Sharp didn’t get the capital injection it once sought in a takeover agreement with Foxconn.Not even close, in fact, as the world’s largest electronics contractor manufacturer ...

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