{"id":548626,"date":"2006-04-26T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548626-sharp-cashes-in-on-flat-screen-tvs.html"},"modified":"2006-04-26T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T14:09:10","slug":"sharp-cashes-in-on-flat-screen-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548626-sharp-cashes-in-on-flat-screen-tvs.html","title":{"rendered":"Sharp cashes in on flat-screen TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Osaka-based firm reported annual net profit of 88.7 billion yen (771 million dollars) on revenues which rose 10.1% to 2.80 trillion yen due to brisk sales of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and related products. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Flat-panel televisions are proving hot-sellers in Japan as fierce competition drives down prices and consumers become less cautious as the economy crawls out of a slump stretching back over a decade. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>However, a recent survey by US-based research firm DisplaySearch\u00a0 showed that Sony Corp overtook Sharp as the top global producer of LCD televisions in the three months to March. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Sharp said full-year operating profit rose by 8.4% to 163.71 billion yen with sales of audio-visual and telecommunications products up 12.2% due to solid demand for\u00a0 large-sized LCD TVs and mobile phone handsets. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>For the year to March 2007, Sharp forecast net profit of 100 billion yen on sales of 3.0 trillion yen. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp said fast-growing demand for flat-screen televisions and mobile phone handsets helped lift its profits by 15.4% in the year to March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}