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Foxconn offers to invest around $5.6 billion in Sharp: Sources

Sharp has chosen Foxconn as its preferred bidder in takeover talks. One source said Sharp's board on Thursday had voted 13-0 to negotiate with Foxconn instead of a state-backed Japanese fund, the Innovation Network Corp of Japan.

February 05, 2016 / 10:32 IST
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Taiwan's Foxconn has offered to invest around 659 billion yen (USD 5.6 billion) in struggling Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Sharp has chosen Foxconn as its preferred bidder in takeover talks. One source said Sharp's board on Thursday had voted 13-0 to negotiate with Foxconn instead of a state-backed Japanese fund, the Innovation Network Corp of Japan.

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first published: Feb 5, 2016 08:04 am

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