{"id":740652,"date":"2013-03-06T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=361553"},"modified":"2013-03-06T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:35:33","slug":"samsung-buys-into-key-apple-supplier-with-110-million-sharp-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740652","title":{"rendered":"Samsung buys into key Apple supplier with $110 million Sharp investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/samsung-sharp-investment-apple-361553\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/samsung-sign-building.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=400&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C400\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Sharp Investment\" title=\"Samsung\" \/><\/a><\/center>Samsung (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS\">005930<\/a>) is reportedly set to buy a 3% stake in struggling panel maker <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sharp\">Sharp<\/a> Corporation for approximately $110 million. The deal will ensure <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a>\u00a0sees \"a smooth supply of large-sized TV panels and help bolster the Japanese company\u2019s chances of survival,\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/06\/sharp-samsung-idUSL4N0BX7QV20130306\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reported<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0\"Rather than the amount of investment, it is the partnership with Samsung that Sharp gains that is important,\"\u00a0noted\u00a0Tetsuro Ii, CEO of investment firm Commons AM. \"Sharp gains an opportunity to use the Samsung platform.\"\u00a0Sharp also builds display panels used in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) iPad, and it is reportedly developing larger displays to be used in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/12\/apple-hdtv-sharp-wsj\/\">Apple's much rumored HDTV<\/a> that is currently in development.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/eNOtoXi3aSo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung (005930) is reportedly set to buy a 3% stake in struggling panel maker Sharp Corporation for approximately $110 million. The deal will ensure Samsung\u00a0sees &#8220;a smooth supply of large-sized TV panels and help bolster the Japanese company\u2019s chances of survival,&#8221; Reuters reported on Wednesday.\u00a0&#8220;Rather than the amount of investment, it is the partnership with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36G0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}