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                    [Title] => Japan's Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs, shut plants
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TOKYO (AP) - Panasonic Corp. said today it will slash 15,000 jobs and shut down 27 plants worldwide to cope with plunging demand for its TVs, semiconductors and other electronics products.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-04 18:00:15 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 435118 [Title] => Panasonic to cut 560 jobs, close Asian plants [Summary] => TOKYO (AP) -Panasonic Corp. [DatePublished] => 2009-01-28 13:00:09 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 304556 [Title] => Recycling, the Matsushita way [Summary] => Osaka, Japan – Global electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., best known for its Panasonic and National brands of appliances, is taking the lead in the Japanese government’s efforts to recycle obsolete home appliances.

Its recycling arm, Matsushita Eco Technology Center Co. Ltd. (METEC), was set up in 2001 – just as the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances took effect – at the town of Yashiro, northwest of this Japanese southern capital.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303207 [Title] => Panasonic elevates TV viewing to higher level [Summary] => TOKYO, Japan — With its new 65-inch plasma display flat TV panel set for release next month and a next-generation DVD system anchored on the Blu-ray disc format, consumer electronics giant Panasonic is set to elevate home viewing to a higher level.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258916 [Title] => Japan carrier packs purchasing power into mobile phones [Summary] => TOKYO (AP) – As it is, you don’t leave home without it. In a world of cashless payment, why not simply make your cellphone a wallet?

Japan has long been phasing out the hassle of coins and bills with microchip-laden "smart cards," which let people make electronic payments for everything from lunch to the daily commute.

But even smart cards could be on their way out, their plastic presence overtaken by virtual-wallet technology now available in the everyday cellphone.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1796133 [AuthorName] => Yuri Kageyama [SectionName] => Telecoms [SectionUrl] => telecoms [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230042 [Title] => Matsushita to stop selling Panasonic [Summary] => Matsushita Electric Philippines Corp. (MEPCO) will cease selling and distributing the Panasonic brand of industrial products in the Philippines effective April 1, 2004, the company told the Philippine Stock Exchange.

"The company will no longer sell and distribute Panasonic Industrial products in the Philippines thus Panasonic Industrial Sales Philippines, the industrial division of MEPCO that handles the above business activity will operate only until March 31, 2004," MEPCO corporate secretary Mamerto Mondragon said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804021 [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196306 [Title] => Matsushita invests P1.75B more in RP [Summary] => Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., better known for its Panasonic and National brands, is expanding its presence in the country with an additional investment of P1.746 billion to manufacture DVD multi-disk drives in its plant at the Carmelray Industrial Park in Laguna. [DatePublished] => 2003-02-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192378 [Title] => Matsushita eyes RP as global hub [Summary] => Japan’s leading appliance maker, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., plans to make the Philippines its global manufacturing hub for its window-type air conditioning units. According to Matsushita vice chairman of the board Masayuki Matsushita... [DatePublished] => 2003-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185384 [Title] => Linking mobiles and appliances [Summary] => TOKYO – The world’s largest mobile phone supplier Nokia Corp. and Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said they would develop technology to link cellphones and home appliances.

The new technology would enable users to control video machines and other home electronic devices via remote control through their mobile phones.

They would even be able to operate a security camera set-up at home and view images on a mobile screen.

Data would be exchanged between the cellphones and appliances over the Internet.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Telecoms [SectionUrl] => telecoms [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 131556 [Title] => Matsushita to invest P688M at Carmelray [Summary] => Matsushita Business Machine Corp. of the Philippines is investing P688 million to manufacture office machinery for export.

The local operations of the Japan-based industrial giant plans to manufacture a new model of compact digital multi-function product (MFP), sub-assembly units and parts thereof. MFP is a high efficiency machine with several built-in functions and can be linked/networked with other machines.

The new model of MFP (UF 490) that will be produced by MBMCP will have the following functions — facsimile, copier, computer printer and answering machine. [DatePublished] => 2001-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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