Taiwanese OEM Foxconn may produce the first smartphone product for Vizio, an American LCD HDTV provider, in 2013.

Japanese electronic company Sharp has published its annual operating strategy for 2012, stating that it will cooperate with Taiwan's Hon Hai in 2013 for its entry into the Chinese smartphone market.

South Korean conglomerate company LG will reportedly close the mobile phone research and development department in LG Electronics China R&D Center in Beijing and cut half of the staff in the department.

Taiwanese computer company Compal has announced that it acquired Toshiba's LCD TV assembly plant in Mexico and the asset transition is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011.

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest LCD panel manufacturer by revenue, has announced that it will invest about USD500 million to build a new joint venture in Suzhou for the production of 7.5-generation panels.

Due to a sub-standard insulation function, Shanghai Suoguang Visual Products Company Ltd, Sony's joint venture in China, has recently submitted a report to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China to recall 7,038 Sony-branded LCD TVs made between December 2010 and March 2011 in Shanghai.

Chinese home appliances and electronics group TCL has signed a framework agreement with Urumqi Economic & Technological Development Zone, to build a TCL industrial park project in Xinjiang.

Hon Hai Precision Industry plans to invest USD25 million to set up a new panel plant in Huangjiang Yuyuan Industry Park, Dongguan, Guangdong, to expand its panel business.

Foxconn Technology Group has announced that in 2010, the company's export value from its Shenzhen processing and trade enterprise reached USD48 billion, a year-on-year increase of 50%.

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Company is rumored to be planning to invest JPY100 billion, which is about USD1.2 billion, in Hitachi Displays Ltd., an LCD screen maker jointly owned by Japan's Hitachi Ltd. and Canon Inc.

Shanghai-based digital media and advertising firm Focus Media Holding Limited announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010.

Chinese digital media firm Focus Media Holding Limited announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010, and stated total net revenue was USD158.2 million, representing an increase of 27% from USD124.9 million for the first quarter of 2010 and an increase of 22% from USD129.5 million for the second quarter [...]

Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Gome and Japanese LCD screen maker Sharp have signed a strategic agreement in which Gome eyes sales of CNY6 billion Sharp LCD TVs from July 1 to the end of 2010.

According to statistics on the official website of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's electronic manufacturing industry grew by 17.7% year-on-year in May 2010; and the output of mobile phones in the country increased by 36.7% year-on-year in the first five months of 2010.

Chinese home appliances and electronics maker TCL Group has published its sales statistics of major products for March and the first quarter of 2010.