Sony to cut more jobs at failing electronic equipment division
Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. is looking to slash more jobs after its mainstream electronics equipment division continues to fail in producing profits. The company has not set a target...
View ArticleSony to increase market share in India to make it bigger than Japan
Sony is targeting India to be its third biggest market for their newly launched smartphone Xperia devices in the country, which currently ranks as fourth overall for the company after China, US and...
View ArticleGran Turismo players can check out Toyota’s new FT-1 concept car within the game
Players of the video game franchise Gran Turismo will be able to have a go at Toyota’s newest concept car the FT-1 which was unveiled IRL (webspeak for “in real life”) at the North American...
View ArticleSony enters genome market, teams up with Illumina, M3
Japanese electronics giant Sony, recently struggling in sales and profits because of its shrinking share of the TV market and the industry-wide slump in PC sales, is looking to break into new markets...
View ArticleSony planning to cut its Vaio PC business to focus on smartphones
Reports are saying that Japanese tech company Sony Corp is in talks to sell its Vaio personal computer business, as this division has been incurring continuous loss for them. This apparent move is also...
View ArticleSony sells PC business, to lay-off around 5,000 employees
Thousands of employees of Japanese tech company Sony will be affected by a major reorganization plan of the company. They have confirmed they are selling their Vaio PC business and switching its TV...
View ArticleSony’s PlayStation 4 leads in next-gen console war, hit 5.3M sales ahead of...
In the attritional console war that has Sony’s PlayStation 4 (PS4) and Microsoft’s Xbox One as main adversaries, it looks like the Japanese console makers have taken a big lead. On January, Sony...
View ArticleJapanese gamers finally get their hands on Sony’s PS4
After feeling a bit slighted by hometown Japanese gaming giant Sony, Japan’s console gamers are now finally getting their hands on the PlayStation 4 (PS4). Sony’s next-gen console has been raking in...
View ArticleSony sells over 300k PS4 units in Japan launch, solid improvement from PS3’s...
Sony’s has sold around 322,000 units of its next-gen console the PlayStation 4 (PS4) in Japan in just over two days since its Japanese launch. These sales numbers, although not indicative of success in...
View ArticleSony continues to lose cash, will sell its birthplace property
Tech giant Sony Corp. is planning to sell some of its properties as part of its restructuring efforts. Among those the company is planning to sell are the Tokyo properties in the Gotenyama area in...
View ArticleSony lays off entire digital marketing division
As news of mass layoffs in Sony businesses came about last week, the Japanese tech giant began handing out pink slips to around 216 employees in its California site early this week. On the chopping...
View ArticleJapanese security outfit develops security camera that is also… a motorcycle?
Japan Security System Co., a Japanese security outfit with a less than imaginative name, wanted to develop a new high-definition security camera for use with their clients. The problem – or wonderful...
View ArticleSony to branch into real estate business
Sony is determined to bounce back. Months after the Japanese electronic company closed its PC business to curtail continued loss, the company is venturing into an unlikely sector to turn its finances...
View ArticleJapanese camera manufacturers doing best to fight off smartphone threat
With their businesses threatened by the growing popularity and ubiquity of smartphones, Japan’s major camera producers are now doing the best they can to fend off the threat by ramping up the...
View ArticleSony remodels the cassette tape to hold 185TB of data
It is a bit amusing to thing that anyone born in the last 15 years would not know what a cassette tape is, but anyone who lived in their youth and prime before that would know what an iconic piece of...
View ArticleSony second-most attractive company in the world, beats Samsung
Never mind that rival electronics company Samsung is beating Sony in sales, a different kind of competition has the Japanese firm outranking the South Korean company. Dutch staffing company, Randstad...
View ArticleSony top executives won’t get bonuses for third year in a row
Bonuses may be a thing of the past for Japanese electronics giant, Sony; well, at least for the executives who have been with the company for the past three years. As the company is set to report...
View ArticleSony looks to rebuild focusing on entertainment, financial services
Sony, one of Japan’s electronic and multimedia giants, seems to be looking for a fresh way to return the company to profitability, as it revealed on Thursday that it will position the company’s...
View ArticleBeijing finally approves game consoles, Sony to start selling PlayStation...
Well, it’s official – Sony’s globally-dominating gaming console brand, the PlayStation, is finally coming to China. Beijing had, since the year 2000, banned console gaming on the argument that it was...
View ArticleSony brings an end to iconic PlayStation Portable, pushes for Vita
As dedicated handheld gaming consoles continue to struggle against the ubiquity of smartphones all over the world, Japan-based gaming and multimedia giant Sony has finally put to bed its iconic...
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