Sharp gobbles NEC as Japan's display giants team up to take on Europe and North America

Japanese display giant Sharp will gobble NEC's display business in a push to expand into North America and Europe. Under the terms of the deal, Sharp will acquire two-thirds of NEC Display Solutions (NDS) and form a joint venture to take the two companies' products to market. NDS makes LCD displays, professional projectors, …

[9Rune5]

Synergies

This worries me since the article not once discussed synergies.

A merger without synergies or people talking about synergies is surely doomed to fail. Dooooomed I tells ya!

[Pascal Monett]

"contribute to our business growth by enforcing our B2B business"

Enforcing ?

They're going to send enforcers to prospects to make them become customers ?

That's an interesting strategy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "contribute to our business growth by enforcing our B2B business"

"Enforcing ?

They're going to send enforcers to prospects to make them become customers ?

That's an interesting strategy."

It works for the government.

[Claptrap314]

Re: "contribute to our business growth by enforcing our B2B business"

And the Mafia. Wait...

[KjetilS]

Re: "contribute to our business growth by enforcing our B2B business"

I think you meant Oracle

[Michael Wojcik]

Could I just have a television, please?

its 5G-capable 8K screens

Oh hell no. That's 5Gs and 7Ks more than I have any reason to want.¹ It's getting harder and harder to find sets that don't have idiotic security holes built into them.

¹I don't even bother with HD. I've found it adds nothing to the story, which is what I'm interested in.