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Foxconn Offers $5.3B to Take Over Sharp
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://www.cio.com/article/3024927/foxconn-said-to-bid-over-5b-for-sharp.html http://www.cio.com/article/3024927/foxconn-said-to-bid-over-..., which derives from this.
- Kalroth 11y agoThanks for the reference to the original article. The article at WSJ is walled so there isn't much to see there.
- NKCSS 11y agoThanks; didn't know it was Sharp who invented the 'Propelling pencils'; that's not what they are known for here :)
- DanBC 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_pencil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_pencil > Between 1822 and 1874, more than 160 patents were registered pertaining to a variety of improvements to mechanical pencils. The first spring-loaded mechanical pencil was patented in 1877 and a twist-feed mechanism was developed in 1895. The 0.9 mm lead was introduced in 1938,[citation needed] and later it was followed by 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 sizes. Eventually, 1.3 and 1.4 mm mechanisms were available, and 0.4 and 0.2 versions are now produced. > The mechanical pencil became successful in Japan with some improvements in 1915 by Tokuji Hayakawa, a metal worker who had just finished his apprenticeship. It was introduced as the "Ever-Ready Sharp Pencil". Success was not immediate, since the metal shaft—essential for the pencil's long life—was unfamiliar to users. However, the Ever-Ready Sharp began selling in huge numbers after a company from Tokyo and Osaka made large orders.[9][10] Later, Tokuji Hayakawa's company got its name from that pencil: Sharp.[9]
- martin_henk 11y agoFoxconn will be most likely walled out of this deal, like the average user gets walled by the wsj... Also news is a few days old already. INCJ already bidding for Toshiba white goods, which they want to fuse with Sharp's white goods division.
- jrcii 11y agoGiven this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Working_conditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Working_conditions I'm disappointed they're in a position to take over anything.
- endemic 11y agoNot to endorse poor working conditions, but articles such as http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/1997/03/in_praise_of_cheap_labor.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19... provoke an interesting line of thought.
- ksec 11y agoI am extremely skeptics about keeping the same management in Sharp...