LG slashes LCD investment costs, maintains planned investments in its OLED business

LG is bent on migrating towards making next-generation OLED panels and has slashed investments in its LCD business, which incidentally accounts for nearly 90% of its revenues. South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd, a key supplier of panels for Apple, posted its second consecutive loss citing poor panel prices while slashing its investment plans by…

China’s state controlled chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup acquires French smart chip components maker Linxens for $2.6 billion

The deal is yet to be finalized since it has yet to get clearance from Linxens’s union, and regulatory approval from France and Germany. According to 5 sources with direct knowledge of the matter at hand, Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd, China top state-controlled chip manufacturer has signed a deal with Linxens, a French smart chip components…

Details Of Irish Abortion Referendum Ads To Be Published By Facebook

Facebook will create a very strong case for election transparency and provide a never before insight about how social media is used for targeting of voters by publishing comprehensive data about political advertising in the run up to the referendum campaign for abortion in Ireland. Details of the amount spent on targeting Irish voters in…

SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund to invest nearly $1 billion in China’s SenseTime Group Ltd

The Chinese facial recognition startup has attracted loads of investor attention so far this year. On Friday, as per a Bloomberg report, SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund intends to invest nearly $1 billion in Chinese facial recognition startup, SenseTime Group Ltd. SoftBank’s Vision Fund and SenseTime are finalizing the terms of the deal and the…

Apple, Sonos, Fitbit and others could potentially feel the heat of U.S. tariffs

Once the Trump Administration’s $200 billion tariff list, which currently is in the public comment period, comes into play, U.S. consumers are likely to see a price hike in consumer goods that are assembled in China. According to U.S. government’s rulings on tariffs, the latest round of trade tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports…