Word: nec
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...colleagues ran into the same objections to their dual-deck technology in 1984. They were also unable to find any electronics companies willing to manufacture their machines or supply the needed parts. In 1987 Dunlap's company filed a $1.5 billion antitrust lawsuit against 28 defendants, charging that JVC, NEC and other large consumer-electronics firms, as well as the Motion Picture Association of America, were illegally blocking the new product...
...manufacture the VCR-2 at its factory in South Korea. In exchange, Samsung will license Go-Video's technology to sell dual-deck VCRs under its own label around the world. Building on its earlier case, Go-Video filed a new, $1 billion lawsuit last January against Sony, NEC and other Japanese companies, charging that they have conspired to monopolize global markets for such products as VCRs, digital-audio recorders and high-definition TV. Last week a federal court denied motions to dismiss the suit, clearing the way for a trial in Phoenix later this year...
...chief of the contracts-law division at Yokota Air Base, that another dango association has overcharged the Air Force and Navy about $76 million on $180 million worth of communications contracts during the past ten years. Most of the firms practicing dango were window dressing for a subsidiary of NEC, the electronics firm, which consistently got most of the work...
...NEC denies taking part in any dango for the Air Force projects. But the apparent cost to the U.S. taxpayer was dramatically illustrated after an American firm first began competing for such contracts in mid-1988. Since then, NEC has won renewed contracts for work at six military bases -- but the company's bids for the work have fallen 40% to 60%. "This had been going on for about 20 years," says Williams. "I don't think any big firm has ever defrauded us like that before...