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1. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

   ...  Richard Templeton 5 ST Microelectronics Carlo Bozotti 6 Renesas Technology Katsuhiro Tsukamoto 7 Sony Howard Stringer 8 Qualcomm Paul Jacobs 9 Hynix Kim Jong-cap ...

2. Rumor: Sony prepping PS3 Slim for August 18 launch

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 04 August 2009

   Sony is reportedly preparing to launch a new version of its Playstation 3 console. According to RTL Info, the "PS3 Slim" will be unveiled in Germany on August 18 before the official opening of the Gamescom ...

3. Sony bleeds money despite big cuts

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 29 July 2009

   Beleaguered Japanese giant Sony has turned in a net loss and blamed it on people not buying its stuff and on the strength of the yen.Beleaguered Japanese giant Sony has turned in a net loss and blamed ...

4. BioWare co-founder criticizes Activision's PS3 bashing

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 14 July 2009

   BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has reportedly criticized Activision's threat to "stop supporting" Sony if the company did not implement an immediate PS3 price cut. San Francisco (CA) - BioWare co-founder ...

5. Sony chief downplays rift with Activision over PS3 price cut

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 08 July 2009

   Sony CEO Howard Stringer has downplayed a rift with Activision chief Bobby Kotick over the latter's demand for an immediate Playstation 3 price cut. According to Stringer, Kotick "likes to make a lot ...

6. Sony turns in $1 billion loss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   Major consumer electronics company Sony turned in a loss of 98.9 billion yen (~$1 billion) for its 2008 financial year, and said it would shut down three factories in Japan.Major consumer electronics company ...

7. Sony reorganizes major business lines, seeks greater interoperability

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 27 February 2009

   Today, Sony announced a major reorganization and restructures of its electronics and game businesses. In addition, Sony will receive an entirely new management structure, along with new management teams ...

8. Steve Ballmer inherits Bill Gates’ CES keynote

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 29 August 2008

     The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced today that the chief executives of Microsoft, Sony and Ford will deliver keynote addresses at the 2009 International CES tradeshow. Most notably, ...

9. Sony and Amazon team up to deliver video everywhere

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 17 July 2008

     As part of its "video everywhere" strategy, Sony plans to marry Internet-equipped Bravia HDTVs with Amazon's new video-on-demand service to fight off increasing pressure from set-top box vendors. ...

10. CES: Sony brings everything from dancing MP3 robots to OLED HDTV

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 06 January 2008

    Sony has impressive additions to its television, MP3 player, and mobile phone lines as shown during its pre-CES press conference. Las Vegas (NV) - Sony has impressive additions to its television, MP3 ...

11. Playstation 3 sales double thanks to price cut, new model

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 15 November 2007

    ... thanks largely to the introduction of a lower-priced $400 version. Sony CEO Howard Stringer told the Associated Press that number was significantly greater than most weekly sales for the system, which ...

12. Sony CEO considers HD format war to be in a “stalemate”

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 09 November 2007

    Sony chief executive Sir Howard Stringer gave surprising comments about the situation about the ongoing high-definition format war between Sony’s Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD DVD technology. Sony ...

13. Sony promises flood of 380 new PS3 games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 21 June 2007

    Sony’s chief executive Howard Stringer has promised a flood of new games to boost PlayStation 3 sales. Tokyo (Japan) – Sony’s chief executive Howard Stringer has promised a flood of ...

14. Stringer "not at all" worried about PS3, predicts $2 billion for Spider-Man 3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 15 June 2007

    In an interview, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer said Nintendo's business model was "very good" compared to Sony's PS3, but says the $600 console is only flagging because developers are ...

15. “Father of PlayStation” to step down as Sony Games CEO

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 26 April 2007

    Ken Kutaragi, “The father of the PlayStation”, will step down as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sony’s games division on June 19 of this year to become honorary chairman, according ...

16. Kaz Hirai moves up in Sony executive ranking

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 30 November 2006

    After many problems with the launch of the PS3, Sony today announced a bit of a shake-up in the corporate level. Ken Kutaragi and Kaz Hirai, two of the most high-profile executives, are among the handful ...

17. Will Blu-ray sink the PlayStation 3?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 15 August 2006

    Only five months after Sony's announcement of a final PlayStation 3 release date was met with widespread acclaim and anticipation, the mood has changed somewhat. Some experts are second-guessing Sony's ...

18. Movielink, CinemaNow bring legal video downloads to the US

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 03 April 2006

    ... sites. MovieLink said it has signed agreements with MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros.; CinemaNow brought Sony Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate on ...

19. GDC 2006: Day One fires up gaming fans, price tags, and physics

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 23 March 2006

    ... excited, to the delight and/or dismay of high school teachers everywhere. Meanwhile, more news on Sony's new online platform for November's PS3. San Jose (CA) - Day One of the Game Developers Conference ...

20. Sony CEO: PlayStation 3 may just make it by Christmas

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 08 March 2006

    In an interview with Variety magazine, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer confirmed reports that his company's PlayStation 3 will be delayed, from a scheduled spring premiere to an undisclosed period "in time ...

21. PlayStation 3 launch date in question

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Tuesday, 17 January 2006

      What Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer didn't say at the recent Consumer Electronics Show about Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console spoke volumes about the key product's timetable, analysts ...

22. Macworld Expo: Equal time for Apple to respond, reserved for tomorrow

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 09 January 2006

    ... act for CES, Steve Jobs might not necessarily have too tall an order for himself. In a CBS News "60 Minutes" interview with Lesley Stahl last Sunday, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer (the former chief of CBS ...

23. CES 2006: Highlights of Thursday's coverage from TG Daily

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 06 January 2006

    ... who keep count call "Day 2" - brought the two competing high- definition videodisc formats back into the spotlight. Proponents of Blu- ray thought they had the day sewn up, when Sony led with a pre-emptive ...

24. CES 2006 Analysis: Core processor is Intel's ticket to Hollywood

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 06 January 2006

    ... toned down, unfortunately, Intel did not release details about Viiv's digital rights management (DRM) features Thursday. But Intel did succeed in convincing Sony - the present-day poster child for piracy ...

25. CES 2006: Sony's Sir Howard Stringer spotlights new Walkman, while skirting past DRM, PS3

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 January 2006

    In the Thursday morning keynote address at CES 2006, Sony chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer made a bold attempt to project an image of his company as not having gone off-track. With a little help from ...

26. Blu-ray / HD DVD battle plays out in real-time at Japan trade show

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 05 October 2005

    ... high-def-supporting products for PCs, apparently in an attempt to model what can be achieved through unity. Taking the focus away from the "match of the day," Sony Chairman Sir Howard Stringer, in his ...

27. Sony to lay off 10,000 over three years

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 22 September 2005

      MarketWatch reports this morning that Sony corporation has announced a three-year restructuing plan, throughout which, as many as 10,000 jobs will be cut - half from administrative positions, more ...

28. New Sony CEO might shift business strategy

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 08 March 2005

      For years, Sony has had trouble straddling the world of consumer electronics - its main line of business - and the movies, music and video games it produces to play on those devices. For years, ...