News - sony
sony ends panel joint venture with rival Sharp
24 May 2012, 2:59 am
sony Corp. is ending its joint venture with rival electronics maker Sharp Corp. to produce and sell large liquid-crystal displays for TVs — part of its new strategy to buy panels rather than invest in manufacturing them.
sony formally quits Sharp LCD joint venture, takes back every yen it invested
24 May 2012, 2:15 am
After
sony cut off its supply of capital to the ill-fated Sakai production plant that it jointly owns with Sharp, it became clear that the final goodbye may be little more than a formality. And here it is, in the form of a cold, resolute press release stating that
sony is selling its seven percent stake back to Sharp and taking back the 10 billion yen ($126 million) it originally invested. The ...
sony star power
23 May 2012, 11:14 pm
When
sony Music chief Doug Morris left rival Universal Music Group last year for his current gig, he wanted nothing more than to dethrone the perennial US king of album sales. The 73-year-old executive may not have thought it would happen this fast. With yesterday’s news that Billboard named...
Samsung and sony put an end to deep discounts on HDTVs
23 May 2012, 8:15 pm
Both Samsung and
sony, two of the world’s largest television makers, have begun enforcing minimum prices on their HDTV sets, in an effort to preserve profit margins, The Wall Street Journal reported. The plan could also protect retail chains such as Best Buy and Target from being undercut by online merchants such as Amazon. The new policy prevents U.S. retailers from advertising or selling ...
sony, Samsung Ask U.S. Retailers to Curb Discounts on TV Sets
23 May 2012, 7:52 am
sony’s policy, effective last month, covers about 120 models of TVs, camcorders, audio players and tablet computers, though excludes Vaio computers, Keizo Masuda, a spokesman for the company, said by phone today.
sony releases Unlimited Music app for iPhone
22 May 2012, 10:07 am
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sony is going up against Spotify by releasing its first Music Unlimited app for iPhone offering Apple users a streaming catalog of about 15 million songs this week. The Music Unlimited app will launch by the end of the week after debuting more than 12 months ago on
sony devices . At CES 2012
sony initially announced the app would be released in summer. The Music Unlimited app is ...
sony is Fighting For the Playstation Vita
22 May 2012, 9:11 am
sony’s high-powered handheld launched this year in the United States to a wave of skepticism and a tepid market response. It may be a good-looking device, but the market hasn’t exactly responded, and that’s led to a lack of new games for the system that has only compounded the problem, According to Hiroshi Kawano,
sony’s game chief in Japan, the “real battle” for the Vita is only beginning.
