BOSTON (Reuters) – Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co on Thursday recommended that Toshiba Corp shareholders elect all company directors, dealing a blow to two activist investors pushing to add five newcomers. ISS... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp said on Monday it would extend the period of its tender offer for chip equipment unit NuFlare Technology Inc until Jan. 16. The extension of the offer, from the originally set Dec. 25, was requested by NuFlare to give its shareho... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bain Capital, which led the $18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Memory Corp, said on Monday it plans to support the business in pursuing M&A in the chip industry, including potentially large deals. The world’s No. 2 maker of NAND chips is expe... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp said it expects net income to jump 33 percent this financial year thanks to profits from the planned $18 billion sale of its memory chip unit. Net profit for the struggling conglomerate is likely to grow to 1.07 trillion ... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Monday it is still aiming to complete the sale of its memory chip business soon, following media reports it had decided to cancel the $18.6 billion sale if it did not get approval from Chinese regulators by May. ... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp has decided it will cancel the planned $18.6 billion sale of its memory chip unit if it does not get approval from China’s anti-monopoly regulator by May, the Mainichi newspaper said on Sunday. A consortium led by U.S. pr... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp is considering an IPO of its prized memory chip business if an agreed ... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp (6502.T) and Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) have agreed in principle to ... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen as window cleaners work on the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp’s plan to raise some $5.4 billion through a sale of new shares w... More »
Embattled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp said on Monday it now expects to slide to a net loss of nearly $1 billion this business year after calculating taxes related to the sale of its prized chip unit. More »
Toshiba Corp said it is discussing joint investment in a new chip production line with Western Digital Corp - its estranged business partner after the Japanese firm chose a different suitor to buy its $18 billion semiconductor business. More »
Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Thursday it is buying back a 10 percent stake in Westinghouse Electric Co from minority shareholder Kazatomprom for 59 billion yen ($522 million), taking full ownership of the bankrupt U.S. unit. More »
A group including Bain Capital and South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) has raised its offer for Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) chip business to 2.4 trillion yen ($22.3 billion) including a 200 billion yen investment in infrastructure, sources familiar with the matter ... More »
A group including Western Digital (WDC.O) is seeking around 50 billion yen ($464 million) from Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to help finance a bid for Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) memory chip unit, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday. More »
Western Digital Corp's (WDC.O) chief executive is in Tokyo to finalize an agreement to buy Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) memory chip business, ending months of dispute over the auction, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. More »
Toshiba Corp may gain a partial endorsement from its auditor for its annual financial results after disagreements over accounting for the much of the year, Japanese media reported - a step that would lessen, but not remove, the risk of a delisting. More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind cherry blossoms at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 11, 2017. Crisis-hit Toshiba Corp has regained access to a crucial $6 billion credit line after stumping up shares in its chip unit as collateral but it... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of SK Hynix is seen at its headquarters in Seongnam, South Korea, April 25, 2016. SK Hynix Inc said on Wednesday it does not plan to abandon its aim to gain equity in Toshiba Corp’s $18 billion chip unit – an assertion that is likely to lo... More »
The logo of Toshiba is seen as a shareholder arrives at Toshiba’s extraordinary shareholders meeting in Chiba, Japan March 30, 2017. Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is in talks with Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) and Taiwan’s Foxconn, as well as with an already preferred ... More »
FILE PHOTO- A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo As the $18 billion sale of Toshiba Corp’s memory chip unit to a government-approved consortium falter... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind cherry blossoms at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Crisis-wracked Toshiba Corp suffered further indignities on Friday, estimating bigger losses for the past financial year an... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo Toshiba Corp said on Friday it now estimates a bigger loss for the past year ended in March due to po... More »
Employee walk past the logo of SK Hynix at its headquarters in Seongnam, South Korea, April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji A Japanese government-led consortium bidding for Toshiba Corp’s chip business will include South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc, sources fa... More »
FILE PHOTO: A Western Digital office building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) plans to raise its offer for Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) prized semiconductor unit to $18 billion or mo... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind cherry blossoms at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Friday it was not convinced by Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) CEO Steve Milligan’s effort to wi... More »
A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao Toshiba Corp (6502.T) aims to name a winner for its prized semiconductor business next week, people familiar with the matter... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Shares of Toshiba Corp jumped on Thursday after people familiar with the matter said it aims to name... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Shares in Toshiba Corp (6502.T) rose as much as 4 percent in early Tuesday trading after Asahi newsp... More »
FILE PHOTO: A Western Digital office building under construction is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) has sought international arbitration to stop partner Toshiba Corp (6502.T) from ... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP (KKR.N) and Japanese government-backed fund, Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), ... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is seen on top of the company’s headquarters in New Taipei City, Taiwan March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo Taiwan’s Foxconn has asked for SoftBank Group’s cooperation i... More »
FILE PHOTO: An Apple logo is seen in a store in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is considering teaming up with its supplier Foxconn to bid for Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) semiconductor business, p... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind cherry blossoms at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp on Friday denied a Bloomberg report that the company had temporarily suspended all meetings and decisions over... More »
A Western Digital office building is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) has warned Toshiba Corp (6502.T) that splitting off its chip unit prior to a planned sale of the business violates their j... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp sacked Westinghouse Electric Co’s chairman two days before the U.S. nuclear engineering subsidiary filed for b... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Shares in Toshiba Corp tumbled on Monday after sources told Reuters that the troubled Japanese conglomerate would likely mi... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic light at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp will likely miss a third deadline to report its quarterly business results, two sources told Reuters, forcing ... More »
The logo of Toshiba is seen as shareholders arrive at Toshiba’s extraordinary shareholders meeting in Chiba, Japan March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Google have joined bidding for Toshiba’s... More »
The logo of Toshiba is seen as a shareholder arrives at Toshiba’s extraordinary shareholders meeting in Chiba, Japan March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp’s shareholders on Thursday approved a proposal to split off the Japanese company’s prized NAND ... More »
The Vogtle Unit 3 and 4 site, being constructed by primary contactor Westinghouse, a business unit of Toshiba, near Waynesboro, Georgia, U.S. is seen in an aerial photo taken February 2017. Georgia Power/Handout via REUTERS Westinghouse Electric Co, a unit of ... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp. is seen at the company’s facility in Kawasaki, Japan February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Westinghouse Electric Co’s financial distress sparked a feeding frenzy among Wall Street lenders keen to give the nuclea... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic signal at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Japan’s industry minister said on Thursday he had agreed with the U.S. energy and commerce secretaries to s... More »
The Japanese government is not considering steps to support embattled conglomerate Toshiba Corp, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Friday. More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic signal at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Shares in Toshiba Corp tumbled on Wednesday after it said it would consider a sale of Westinghouse but did ... More »
Reporters raise their hands for a question during a news conference by Toshiba Corp CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa and other senior sompany officials at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Shares in Toshiba Tec Corp (6588.T)... More »
FILE PHOTO – A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo The Japanese government, fretting over the future of Toshiba Corp’s flagship memory chips unit, is prepared to blo... More »
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso takes questions from reporters at the Willard Intercontinental hotel during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Washington October 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan Toshiba Corp’s Westinghouse unit needs... More »
FILE PHOTO – Reporters raise their hands for a question during a news conference by Toshiba Corp CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa and other senior sompany officials at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo U.S. nuclea... More »
FILE PHOTO: Logos of Foxconn and Ennoconn are seen during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan June 1, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is not a favored bidder for Toshib... More »
Reporters raise their hands for a question during a news conference by Toshiba Corp CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa and other senior sompany officials at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T), responding t... More »
The logo of SK Hynix is seen at its headquarters in Seongnam, South Korea, April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo SK Hynix Inc will consider making a fresh bid for Toshiba Corp’s flash memory chip business should the Japanese conglomerate offer more of... More »
FILE PHOTO – A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen outside an electronics retail store in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) wants to raise at least 1 trillion yen ($8.8 billion) by selling most of its flash m... More »
FILE PHOTO: A policeman walks on a beach near Kudankulam nuclear power project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, September 13, 2012. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo India does not expect fallout from the financial meltdown at Toshiba Corp (6502.T) to ... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic signal at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Shares in Japan’s Toshiba sank 10 percent on Friday, after credit rating firm S&P Global said it could slash the conglomerate’s ra... More »
FILE PHOTO – Pedestrians walk past a logo of Toshiba Corp outside an electronics retailer in Tokyo September 14, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Shares in Toshiba Corp (6502.T) skidded on Wednesday after the conglomerate said it would book a $6.3 billion h... More »
Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has decided to delay the sale of shares in its chip business to the next financial year or later, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday, without citing sources. More »
Reporters raise their hands for a question during a news conference by Toshiba Corp CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa and other senior sompany officials at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s Toshiba Corp on Wednesday a... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp. is seen at the company’s facility in Kawasaki, Japan February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has unexpectedly delayed the release of its quarterly earnings and details of a multi-billion dollar writedown to its nuc... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen as Window cleaners work on the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it has asked regulators to allow it to delay the release of its earnings, including... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp. is seen at the company’s facility in Kawasaki, Japan February 13, 2017. Picture taken February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has delayed its earnings release, including details of a multi-billion charge related to... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 1, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T) will on Tuesday detail a writedown of close to $6 billion after bruising cost overruns at its U.S. nuclear arm, turning ... More »
FILE PHOTO – Toshiba’s used-memory chips are seen at an electronics shop in Tokyo November 9, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo Toshiba Corp has received bids ranging from 200 billion yen to as much as 400 billion yen ($1.8-3.6 billion) for a 19.9 percen... More »
Toshiba Corp wants investment funds including Bain Capital to buy a stake in its flash memory business rather than industry peers such as Micron Technology Inc because doing so will speed up the planned sale, a source said. More »
The logo of SK Hynix is seen in its plant in Icheon, about 80 km (50 miles) southeast of Seoul May 13, 2013. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won Toshiba Corp favors private equity bidders in the sale of a stake in its chip business, as suitors including rivals SK Hynix Inc an... More »
FILE PHOTO- A logo of Toshiba Corp is seen on a printed circuit board in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Phot Japanese trust banks are preparing to sue Toshiba Corp over its 2015 accounting scandal, a fresh heada... More »
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind a traffic signal at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Shares of Toshiba Corp tumbled as much as 5.8 percent in early trade on Monday after a newspaper report that some trust banks are ... More »
Toshiba Corp chairman Shigenori Shiga attends a news conference at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato Toshiba Corp (6502.T) Chairman Shigenori Shiga is ready to step down to take responsibility for the huge writedowns loom... More »
Pedestrians walk past a logo of Toshiba Corp outside an electronics retailer in Tokyo, Japan, June 25, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Photo Toshiba Corp said it may have to book several billion dollars in charges related to a U.S. nuclear power plant constructi... More »
Pedestrians walk past a logo of Toshiba Corp outside an electronics retailer in Tokyo, Japan September 14, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Shares in chips-to-construction group Toshiba Corp tumbled 20 percent on Wednesday, hitting the Tokyo exchange’s dail... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has granted Canon Inc (7751.T) exclusive negotiating rights for its medical equipment unit after a hotly contested auction, with a report putting Canon’s offer at more than 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion). The conglomerate put Toshib... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said its board of directors would hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the planned sale of its medical equipment unit and announce the outcome swiftly if a decision is reached. The cash-strapped Japanese company said in a statemen... More »
TOKYO Canon Inc is front-runner to buy the healthcare business of Toshiba Corp with a bid of over 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion), Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported. Toshiba, a laptops-to-nuclear conglomerate seeking cash to restructure after an accounting scan... More »
TOKYO Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Monday it will cut nearly 7,000 consumer electronics jobs after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal, in an overhaul that will streamline the sprawling conglomerate into a company focused on chips and nuclear energy. To... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp said on Monday it would discuss its restructuring measures and it may announce the impact on its business for this fiscal year ending March. The Nikkei business daily reported over the weekend the company is expected to forecast a record net... More »
TOKYO Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo on Monday, seeking 301.99 million yen ($2.45 million) in damages after the firm’s stock plunged in the wake of a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal. The lawsuit ag... More »
TOKYO Japan’s securities watchdog will recommend that Toshiba Corp should be fined 7.37 billion yen ($59.84 million) for accounting violations, a person familiar with the process told Reuters on Saturday. The source said the Securities and Exchange Surveillanc... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp is set to sell its image sensor business to Sony Corp for around 20 billion yen ($164.68 million) as part of a restructuring plan laid out earlier this year, sources with knowledge of the deal said on Saturday. Toshiba, whose businesses rang... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp (6502.T) swung to a first-quarter loss on weak PC and TV sales, raising pressure on its new chief executive, who is already tasked with improving governance after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal. Toshiba on Monday reported an April-June op... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is set to report an operating loss of more than 10 billion yen ($83 million) in the April-June quarter hurt by weakness in the consumer electronics business, the Nikkei business daily reported. Toshiba last reported a first-quarter ... More »
TOKYO Tom Scott, a former U.S. executive at Toshiba Corp (6502.T), remembers his former boss Atsutoshi Nishida as an aggressive leader who could motivate staff but also rattle them with tough sales targets and an occasional dressing down. “He gave me goals tha... More »
TOKYO The Japanese affiliate of Ernst & Young LLC has launched an in-house investigation into its audit of Toshiba Corp in the wake of the electronics maker’s $1.2 billion accounting scandal, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Ernst & Young ShinNihon ... More »
TOKYO Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) chief executive Hisao Tanaka and a string of other senior officials resigned on Tuesday for their roles in the country’s biggest accounting scandal in years. Tanaka will be temporarily replaced by Chairman Masashi Muromachi after ... More »
