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On Wednesday morning, Bloomberg and Reuters reported that the struggling Japanese giant Sharp had sold a two-thirds stake to Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contractor manufacturer, for 389 billion Japanese yen ($ 3.5 billion, £2.4 billion).
The offer is about $ 1 billion less than what Foxconn had been expected to...
Rovi, the provider of entertainment metadata, is in talks to acquire TiVo, a service that introduced DVRs and time-shifting but never became a powerhouse moneymaker, according to a report Thursday in The New York Times.