Olympus mulls tie-up with Sony, Panasonic: report

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp is scouting the global electronics industry for a friendly investor to help it recover from an accounting scandal and has put Sony and Panasonic on its short list, a newspaper said on Thursday. Olympus, a maker of cameras and medical equipment, has been wounded by a $1.7 billion accounting fraud that burst into the open in October, shredding its share price, leaving its management in disgrace and its balance sheet damaged. ...