LG ELECTRONICS

LG Electronics hopes to revolutionize the TV and the Internet with a magic touch pen.

Cellphone market growth slumped in the third quarter, with the grim economic climate prompting consumers to cut back or delay purchases, particularly in western Europe, research firm Gartner said.

Google TV gets dumped by Logitech, but LG Electronics and Vivid Entertainment show the platform some support.

Nvidia Corp's third-quarter results beat estimates as the chipmaker refocused on smartphones and tablets in a tepid personal computer market, although its revenue forecast was a bit lower than expected.

Google Inc will continue to offer support to firms using its Android system that are involved in legal disputes, its executive chairman Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday, as the Internet giant looks to cement alliances in the face of toughening competition.

Chipmaker Nvidia Corp, rushing to stake out more territory in tablets and smartphones, said its new Tegra 3 processor delivers up to three times the graphics performance of its predecessor and uses 61 percent less power.

A joint venture of Hitachi Ltd and LG Electronics pleaded guilty to 15 criminal counts in connection with a long running probe of price fixing in the sale of optical disk drives.

Asian shares wiped earlier gains and fell anew Tuesday, weighed by concerns that surging bond yields could stifle debt-ridden Italy's fund-raising ability and throw the euro zone deeper into financial turmoil, while Greece struggled to pick a new leader.

The executive chairman of Google Inc on Tuesday played down concerns the search giant would give preferential treatment to Motorola Mobility Holdings after its planned purchase of the handset maker is completed.

Asian shares rose Tuesday, but gains were capped by concerns that surging bond yields could stifle debt-ridden Italy's fund-raising ability and throw the euro zone deeper into financial turmoil, while Greece struggled to pick a new leader.

South Korea's LG Electronics announced on Thursday a $945 million rights issue, mainly to fund a revival of its loss-making smartphone business.

LG Electronics, South Korea's loss-making handset maker, plans to issue new shares worth around $891 million to improve its cash flow, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Shares in LG Electronics Inc shares dived 14 percent on Thursday, their biggest daily fall in more than three years, on reports it was planning a $890 million share sale to fund new profit generators, as its core handset business struggles.

Shares in LG Electronics plunged by nearly the daily limit of 15 percent late on Thursday, hit by market talk the company was planning a $890 million share sale to support its ailing smartphone business and unprofitable flat-screen unit.

Shares in LG Electronics plunged early Thursday amid market talk the world's No.3 handset maker was planning a rights offer worth some 1 trillion won ($891.4 million).

Internet giant Google expects India's Internet growth to be driven by mobile users, predicting that they will form the majority of new Internet users in the country as low-priced smartphones become available.

By 2012, Samsung announced that they may be unleashing mobile devices with pliable screens.

Japan's Sony Corp., struggling with a loss-making television business, is considering dissolving its liquid-crystal-display joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.

Sony Corp, struggling with a loss-making television business, is in negotiations to pull out of its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs.

South Korea's LG Electronics reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss on Wednesday, with its mobile phone division sinking deeper into the red, dashing hopes of a recovery in its struggling smartphone business.

Just a few doors down from the Apple store in Sydney, where a long line of fans eagerly awaited the sale of the new iPhone 4S, another throng was gathering at a Samsung store.