"The consumer electronics business has become an Asian business.
Like most consumer electronic companies, LeapFrog's business is highly seasonal with approximately 85percentt of its total net sales occurring in the third and fourth quarters, when parents buy educational toys for children going back to school and for the holidays.
Lycos, based in Waltham, Mass., provides Web navigation as well as business and consumer electronic commerce products.
But true e-commerce has so far failed in this country, which does not yet have a consumer credit system to make online retailing or other electronic businesses viable.
But by betting on a PS3 successor, Hirai, whose most profitable business is life insurance, risks deepening consumer electronic losses as he will have to sell consoles at below the manufacturing cost to gain market traction.
The Others segment is engaged in the operation of home centers and professional football teams, the repair, delivery and installation of consumer electronic products, the development of systems, the Internet service provider (ISP) business, the leasing management of real estate, the cable television (CATV) broadcasting and CATV Internet business, as well as the manpower dispatching business.
And GE is doing Internet electronic commerce in a big way.The centre of its efforts is its Trading Process Network (TPN), a Web site where GE now does $1 billion-worth of business a year with about 1,400 of its suppliers, singlehandedly exceeding all consumer electronic commerce.
Joined family's trading business in 1949; empire today includes large real estate holdings in Australia (Thakral Holdings) and consumer electronic manufacturing (Thakral Corp .. Kwek Leng Beng (No. 5) attempted to take over Thakral Corp. last year but failed.
Let electronic businesses do the "regulation" themselves.
Audiovox sells cellphones, mobile security and consumer electronic products.
