Sometimes a company announcing bad news makes a good investment. These are all valid concerns, and Wall Street agrees with W.D., it seems: It sent the shares of Solectron -- a leading provider of ...

Solectron's business isn't falling as sharply these days as in previous months, but company executives say things are still looking bad. "We ought to be expecting still a downward trend," said Susan ...

Flextronics International said Monday it would buy its smaller rival Solectron to beef up its presence in the computing and telecommunciations businesses. The move creates a company with $30 billion ...

Singapore-based contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics International Ltd. will buy contract electronics maker Solectron Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $3.6 billion, the company said ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Solectron Corp., a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of electronics equipment, said Thursday that it would lay off 12,000 people, about 16% of its workforce. The company said it didn’t ...

Flextronics International kicked off the week by announcing that it's snatching up smaller rival Solectron in order to strengthen its presence in the computing and telecommunciations businesses.

Shares of Solectron Corp., a leading contract manufacturer for high-tech companies, fell Friday after announcing mixed second-quarter results and plans to cut 12,000 jobs and consolidate facilities.

Solectron Corp. (NYSE: SLR) will issue $2 billion in stock to expand its reach into memory components and embedded computers. On the same day it announced fourth quarter earnings slightly ahead of ...

Contract electronics manufacturer Solectron Corp. posted a drop in quarterly revenue and forecast more declines in the second half of the year and said it would restate three years of results. Shares ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- In a deal that would combine two contract manufacturers of electronic devices, Flextronics International Ltd. has agreed to acquire Solectron Corp. , the companies said.

Solectron has survived the tech wreck, and better days could be ahead. The past 10 years have been a wild roller-coaster ride for Solectron (NYSE:SLR) shareholders. Gunned up to unsustainable ...