In a push to enhance its smartphone business, Japan's Sony is nearing a deal to buy out Swedish telecom firm Ericsson's stake in their mobile phone joint venture, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Ten years ago when we formed the joint venture, thereby combining Sony’s consumer products knowledge with Ericsson’s telecommunication technology expertise, it was a perfect match to drive ...

Sony got into the cell phone business in 2001 in a joint venture with Ericsson. Those early feature phone days brought plenty of success, and Sony mixed in its Walkman brand and helped innovate ...

Before looking to the future, we need to consider the company’s past, and it all begins with a joint venture between Sony Mobile of Japan and Sweden’s Ericsson to create the smartphone that ...

But Nokia and Sony Ericsson, two of its big customers ... The companies announced last year that they planned to end the joint venture started in 2009. Daily insights on business use cases ...

Ericsson, which last year saw another of its joint ventures fall apart when it left the mobile handset operations it shared with Japan’s Sony, said it stands by the business plan for ST-Ericsson.

Sony is buying Ericsson out from their mobile phone joint venture, in the latest reshaping of an industry racing to react to the runaway success of Apple's iPhone. The Japanese technology giant is ...

The European Commission has approved Sony's decision to buy Ericsson's stake of the Sony Ericsson joint venture. The ten year long alliance is coming to an end and the EU approval is a huge step ...

Sony said Monday it will sell off its entire stake in an LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing joint venture with Samsung Electronics for 1.08 trillion won (US$934 million). The two companies ...

Sony Ericsson, which was created in 2001 as a joint venture between the two companies, was represented by Swedish law firm Magnusson with a team under Gothenburg-based corporate partner Per Hendar ...

In the latest sign that smartphones are replacing simpler cellphones, Swedish device maker Ericsson is getting out of the business it helped to foster a decade ago. Japanese electronics giant Sony ...

Sony and Ericsson joined forces in the mobile-handset joint venture in 2001. After enjoying some early success with such products as the Walkman phone and the Cyber-shot phone, Sony Ericsson has ...