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Sharp bungs Dell and pals $198m to silence TFT price-fix spat

Sharp has agreed to fork out $198.5m to make the TFT monitor price-fixing lawsuits go away. The Japanese firm announced it had settled with Dell and two unnamed companies out of court, and will slap the nine-figure payout into its next quarterly report as "extraordinary expenses". It is understood the legal action was launched …

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"Sharp said it didn't know how its profits will be affected by the settlement"

Yeah well I guess that would depend on how the lawsuit would have turned out.

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Huh?

"which ended with a jury awarding $87m in damages to consumers and manufacturers"

Where's my share then...?

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