Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:04pm EST Jan 26 (Reuters) – Fujifilm Holdings Corp will present a capital and business alliance offer to Olympus Corp arguing that its medical systems make it a good match with the manufacturer of digital cameras and endoscopes, the Nikkei business daily said. Olympus, which has recently been in...
By Taro Fuse and Isabel Reynolds - Reuters TOKYO | Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:29am EST TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp and Fujifilm Holdings are leading contenders for an equity stake in Olympus Corp, sources familiar with the situation said, as the scandal-hit medical equipment maker moves to shore up its finances. The field...
By HIROKO TABUCHI - Published: January 20, 2012 – NY Times TOKYO — The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Friday that it would allow Olympus, the Japanese camera maker that has admitted hiding $1.7 billion in losses, to remain listed after paying a small fine for its false accounting. A delisting probably would have destroyed...
The Canon EOS 5D Mark II SLR with 24-105mm lens attached. By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Even in this smartphone era, when many consumers find the photos on their cellphones are good enough, camera sales remain strong. “Tablets and smartphones have captured the consumer zeitgeist,” says Chris Chute, an analyst for research firm IDC....
By HIROKO TABUCHI - Published: December 21, 2011 – NY Times TOKYO — More than two months after Olympus’s former president blew the whistle on a huge accounting fraud, Japanese authorities raided the company’s headquarters here Wednesday, emerging several hours later with boxes of documents. TV cameras crews, tipped off in advance, were in...
Real-time Consumer Market Research Reveals Shoppers’ Brand and Price Preferences PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Market Insight Corporation today reported that U.S. consumers are placing greater importance on “brand” for digital camera purchase decisions. Further, the maximum price that consumers are willing to pay for a digital camera is increasingly influenced by brand. Based on preferences...
By HIROKO TABUCHI - Published: November 7, 2011 – NY Times TOKYO — Olympus said Tuesday that more than $1 billion in merger payouts were used to hide years of losses on investments, an acknowledgment that is an abrupt about-face for the company, which had denied any wrongdoing in the wake of a widening scandal....
By David Pogue – August 3, 2011 – NY Times After 20 years, the digital camera makers are finally giving the world what it really wants: spectacular, professional-looking photos — from a tiny camera. There’s only one problem with this new category: nobody knows what to call it. They’re something like S.L.R.’s (single-lens reflex)...
By David Owen - Golf Digest – Cameras Courtesy of Companies – July 2011 When I told a golf-hating friend that I was field-testing cameras, he said, “Not every camera is up to the demands of today’s no-nonsense golf environment!” He meant that as a withering remark, but he was right. I own a...
By Mike McEnaney – Your-Digital-Life.com Can’t be bothered with photo editing but think some of the creative touches added to digital images are fun and exciting. How about having the camera do all the work? That’s right – with the flick of the mode dial you can add some amazing creative effects to your...
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