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Articles tagged with: Flextronics
Flextronics plunges to 1Q loss, still tops outlook
Singapore-based contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics International plunged to a loss in its fiscal first quarter on restructuring and other charges, but adjusted results still beat expectations. more
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Russia Falls off the Electronics Contract Manufacturing Map
Once viewed as a promising emerging market with massive growth potential for the global electronics contract manufacturing business, Russia now is facing a cessation of new investment, along with shutdowns in existing facilities and delays in new ones, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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Nortel Networks files for bankruptcy protection
Canada's Nortel Networks has filed for bankruptcy protection - the first major telecoms firm to fall victim to the ongoing economic downturn. The company said that it expects that its normal day to day operations will continue during the financial restructuring of the business. more
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Technology Merger and Acquisition Activity Bodes Well for 2008
While the headlines are dominated by the negative implications of the global credit crunch, the global technology merger and acquisition (M&A) market is proving to be a very resilient beast. Q1 2008 has already seen numerous landmark deals announced, including the pending bid for Yahoo by Microsoft, and in the UK the $1 billion leveraged buy-out (LBO) of Northgate Information Solutions by KKR and the recently announced £190m recommended offer by 3i for Civica. more
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Samsung Beats Motorola for No. 2 Spot as Apple Joins the Handset Vendor Club
After an expected post-holiday slump in handset shipments in the first quarter of the year, the worldwide mobile phone market grew at a respectable pace in the second quarter, with most vendors citing success in emerging markets. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 272.7 million units worldwide in Q2 '07, about 6.9% more than the quarter earlier, and 16.5% more than the same quarter a year ago. more
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Sony Ericsson Opens Indian R&C Center
Sony Ericsson has announced that it is establishing a research and development unit for mobile phones in Chennai, India. The move follows closely on the company's January announcement of sourcing local manufacture of phones in Chennai with EMS partners flextronics and Foxconn; with a production target of 10 million units by 2009. The Chennai research and development unit will be headed by Anders Grynge, who was previously based at the Sony Ericsson R&D centre in Sweden. more
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T&A aims to sell 700k Alcatel handsets this year
China's T&A, which manufactures mobile handsets of French telecoms equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent, aims to sell 700,000 GSM phones or 2% of the replacement handset market in Brazil in 2007, newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported T&A Brasil's president Eduardo Chacon as saying. more
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Sony Ericsson Plans to Manufacture Mobile Phones in India
Sony Ericsson has announced plans to manufacture mobile phones in India, through manufacturing agreements with flextronics and Foxconn, the company's global outsourcing manufacturing partners. Initially the focus will be to manufacture basic colour phones and mid-level music enabled phones, for local distribution. In addition to competitive pricing, these phones will offer customised features for the Indian market, such as local content and customised keypads. more
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Flextronics and HP Enhance Mobile Phone Image Quality
flextronics Components and HP have announced a five-year technology collaboration agreement to help mobile camera phone users capture photos with the same high quality they achieve from their digital still cameras. As part of the agreement, HP will provide an exclusive license of its image processing technology to flextronics for use in camera modules, in return for a royalty. more
Alcatel prepares to launch handsets in Brazil
French-Chinese handset manufacturer T&A (Alcatel) is preparing to launch its range in Brazil and is in talks with manufacturing outsourcer flextronics to this end, Alcatel Chile country manager Pablo Radó told BNamericas. more
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