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Japan aims to bolster M&A disclosure after Olympus scandal

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan signaled plans to strengthen disclosure rules on mergers and acquisitions after a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Olympus Corp, one of the nation's worst corporate scandals, which involved a series of shady deals.Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi told ...

Japan aims to bolster M&A disclosure after Olympus

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan signaled plans to strengthen disclosure rules on mergers and acquisitions after a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Olympus Corp, one of the nation's worst corporate scandals, which involved a series of shady deals.Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi told ...

Olympus ex-CEO Woodford quits board in bid to force overhaul

TOKYO (Reuters) - The whistleblower in the accounting scandal engulfing Japan's Olympus Corp, ex-CEO Michael Woodford, has quit the firm's board of directors and called for an urgent shareholder meeting to sweep aside its disgraced top brass.Woodford said on Thursday that his ...

Olympus: increased damages sought in lawsuit

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympus Corp said on Friday a Japanese investor expanded the scope of a shareholder lawsuit against former and current executives at the scandal-ridden company, whose shares have slumped 60 percent in six weeks.The unnamed individual, who lives in western ...

Analysis: Olympus scandal puts auditors under scrutiny

NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympus Corp's use of accounting tricks to hide big losses has raised questions about whether its auditors, the Japanese arms of global giants KPMG and Ernst & Young, should have done more to follow up on red flags.The ...

Nikon says first-half sales beat expectations

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nikon's April-September sales and operating profit beat its expectations thanks to a healthy performance from its camera division, and advance orders for a new model are also better than expected, the company's president said on Wednesday.Makoto Kimura told Reuters ...

Nikon unveils its first mirrorless cameras

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nikon unveiled its first mirrorless cameras on Wednesday, beating its arch rival Canon to the nascent market for small, interchangeable-lens cameras, where other manufacturers have met with mixed success.Priced at around 70,000 yen ($915) and 105,000 yen, the long-rumored ...
ASUS' monochrome Eee Note EA-800 has found itself a price tag and a release date, with the company bringing it to Taiwan later this week. Meanwhile ASUS also confirmed launch plans for the rest of Asia, Europe and the US.. The US ...

Trading on Canon's Global Footprint

When looking for emerging markets' exposure, keep an eye out for those companies that are based in America and other developed economies, but do a lot of business in emerging markets.. One of those companies to keep an eye on is Canon ...

The Daily Slash: November 22 2010

Let me tell you all about it, then, if you're into new ways of chipping around, let Douglas L. Davis tell you all about it. Then our Week with NOOKcolor began with Hardware on Saturday, Avi wrote an amazing column on 2014 ...
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