Tension on Display: Samsung May End Dwindling LCD Panel Deal With Apple

Hardly surprising, given the circumstances.
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A Peek at the Parts — And Profits — Inside Samsung’s Galaxy Note Tablet

Price at the store: $499.99. Cost to build: About $270. Profit margin: Slightly better than Apple’s.
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Damages in LCD Price-Fixing Case Top $1 Billion

LG Display, AU Optronics and Toshiba agree to add another $571 million to the total.
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Corning Monkeys Around With Next Display Technology: Willow Glass

Known for its Gorilla Glass, Corning unveils a technology it says will help create next-generation curved displays.
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This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature

Sales of 3-D TVs are up, the NPD Group says, but whether consumers watch content in 3-D is a whole different story.
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Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

So much for falling TV prices.
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How Japan’s Sharp Lost Its Edge

Sharp Corp.’s domestic liquid-crystal-display factories once made the company a source of pride for Japan’s electronics sector.

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More TV Buyers Look to LED Screens

For the first time, more U.S. TV buyers are looking to purchase LED TVs rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) TVs, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. Consumers who planned to buy an LED-backlit TV jumped to 54 percent in the last quarter of the year, a 32 percent increase from the third quarter; the share of CCFL-backlit LCD TVs dropped to 25 percent from 56 percent. The report comes just a couple days after Samsung, the world’s largest LCD-panel maker, said it would spin off its LCD business to focus more on higher-margin OLED screens.

Sony Unloads LCD Venture Stake on Samsung