Japan's Sharp to vote on rival takeover bids on Thursday: sources

Sharp Corp plans to choose between rival rescue offers as soon as Thursday, as a favored bid from Taiwan's Foxconn continues to be challenged by a Japanese state-backed investment fund, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Sharp said earlier this month that it was devoting more resources to studying a deal with Foxconn, an Apple Inc supplier known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co . The Taiwanese firm, the world's largest electronics assembler, has offered to invest 659 billi