TAIPEI/SAN FRANCISCO: Taiwan-based AU Optronics Corp was fined $500 million by a U.S. judge for price fixing in the market for liquid crystal display panels, but the company's shares jumped as much as 5 percent early on Friday amid relief the fine wasn't larger.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco also handed down three-year prison sentences to two individual defendants on Thursday.
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