Sharp, a key supplier of components that go into iPads and iPhones, lost $5.4 billion last year, prompting the Japanese display maker to increase its reliance on Apple's top rival, Samsung, in order ...

Hon Hai’s Foxconn is one of the leading assemblers of Apple’s mobile devices, including the iPhone and the iPad. On the other hand, Sharp Corp is a struggling supply chain partner for Apple and is ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

While the Korean electronics giant says it's not going to intervene in Sharp's business management, it could end up with early insight into new tech and influence future products. And that could be a ...