Japanese high-tech giant Hitachi Ltd. said Thursday that it had lost about 1.5 billion dollars in the six months through September because of weak demand for electronics. Hitachi, which makes everything from refrigerators to nuclear power systems, posted a net loss of 133.2 billion yen (1.47 billion dollars) for the first half of its business year, against ...

Japanese high-tech makers NEC, Hitachi and Casio Computer said on Monday that they had agreed to merge their mobile phone businesses to cope with a slump in domestic sales and expand overseas. Together they would have the second biggest slice of the Japanese mobile telephone handset market, ahead of Panasonic Corp. but behind Sharp Corp., which has a one-quarter share ...

Japanese high-tech makers NEC, Hitachi and Casio Computer said on Monday that they had agreed to merge their mobile phone businesses to cope with a slump in domestic sales and expand overseas. Together they would have the second biggest slice of the Japanese mobile telephone handset market, ahead of Panasonic Corp. but behind Sharp Corp., which has a one-quarter share ...

Japanese electronics makers NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi said Monday they will combine their mobile phone handset-manufacturing operations by April next year in a bid to boost their competitiveness at home and abroad. The three companies are relatively small players in the domestic market for handsets ...