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"Sure, it was all fun and games when folks were just tossing about the idea, but it seems that Kyocera may be taking this whole deal a bit more seriously than we previously assumed. Reportedly, \"Kyocera [is aiming] to buy Sanyo's cell phone operations for about &amp;yen;50 billion ($435 million),\" and just in case you still had doubts, these same sources are suggesting that the two are \"entering the final stage of talks.\" Of course, a Kyocera spokeswoman declined to comment on the validity of the claims, but if this deal does indeed get done, it will create \"the world's seventh-largest mobile phone maker.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/kyocera-gettin-serious-about-buying-sanyos-mobile-biz/>