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Japanese stocks tick lower today as exporters get hit on a...
Japanese stocks tick lower today as exporters get hit on a strengthening yen in reaction to a Moody's downgrade of some European sovereign debt. The Nikkei Average is currently down 0.1% to 8,986: Sony ( SNE -1.3% ), Sharp (SCPAY.PK -1.3% ), and Kirin ( KNBWY.PK -2% ). Comment?
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... ZTE, Apple ( AAPL ), HTC, Samsung ( SSNLF.PK ), Motorola ( MMI ), Nokia ( NOK ), Huawei, Research In Motion ( RIMM ), Sony ( SNE ), Kyocera, Sharp, Panasonic, LG, Acer ... I am probably forgetting a few brands here. The number of brands is not a ... Comment?
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Sony Music Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Hits on iTunes By More Than 60% After Singer's Death
Northern, WI 2/13/12 -- Sony Music has come under fire after it increased the price of a Whitney Houston album on Apple's iTunes Store hours after the singer was found dead. Comment?
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Sony ([[SNE]] -0.5%) faces some public backlash after fans quickly...
Sony faces some public backlash after fans quickly noticed that the company increased prices on albums issued by the late singer Whitney Houston. Comment?
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Sony Music under fire after cost of Whitney Houston hits on iTunes...
Northern, WI 2/13/12 -- Sony Music has come under fire after it increased the price of a Whitney Houston album on Apple's iTunes Store hours after the singer was found dead. Comment?
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TEXT: Fitch Street InterView: Fall of the Japanese Tech Giants
... further downgrades in February 2012, Fitch now rates Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic), Sharp Corporation (Sharp), Sony Corporation (Sony) and Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) 'BBB-', the lowest investment-grade rating, and has Negative Outlooks on the ... Comment?
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Sony Turning to Medical-Imaging Chips
Rising rates of cancer, obesity and heart disease may offer a path back to health for Sony Corp., as the ailing Japanese maker of televisions, cameras and game consoles turns to semiconductors to end unprecedented losses. Comment?
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Whitney Houston Dead: Will CBS, Sony Benefit?
... higher than in 2012. And that could be good for CBS' earnings. Houston completed theA filming of Sparkle , produced by Sony (SNE) division, TriStar Pictures. In the film, Houston plays Emma, the mother of American Idol's Jordin Sparks. According to ... 9 comments
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Sony's Hirai to Extend PlayStation Strategy
... the battered brand would revert to a gadget-centered strategy under his management. Visitos walk past the logo of Sony Playstation PS at Sony Computer Entertainment Japan news conference on the company's PlayStation Vita handheld games device in ... Comment?
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NXP Semiconductors PT Raised to $27.00 by Jefferies Group
... Products, Manufacturing Operations and Corporate and Other. On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH. On ... Comment?
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Sony seeks rebound in chips in disease-fighting gear
TOKYO -- Rising rates of cancer, obesity and heart disease may offer a path back to health for Sony as the ailing Japanese maker of televisions, cameras and game consoles turns to semiconductors to end unprecedented losses. Japan's largest consumer-electronics exporter will speed up a move into health equipment by using the edge its new image-sensors have over rivals, incoming Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai said. The medical field could become a main profit source, Hirai said, as Sony cuts targets on PlayStation 3 units, Blu-ray disc players and Vaio computers. 'We can leverage our technology base in image-capturing sensors, lenses, 3-D technology, image processing, to mention just a few areas,' Hirai said Thursday. 'Those are areas where we already have in-house technologies that really allow us to differentiate ourselves.' Sony won a boost after its smaller and more efficient CMOS chips were used in Apple 's iPhone 4S. It's now targeting endoscopes used to look inside body cavities and other applications. Medical devices mark a further retreat from consumer products, where Sony has struggled against cheaper South Korean and Chinese rivals and Apple's hit releases. 'They are looking for new markets that can support their strengths in making high-quality goods,' said Nobuo Kurahashi, an analyst at Mizuho Financial Group. 'Medical comes to mind,' he said. 'It's a market where people are prepared to pay for quality.' Sales of audio-visual goods such as Trinitron televisions and Walkman music players accounted for 89 percent of Sony's 1.05 trillion yen ($13.6 billion) revenue in 1981. Thirty years later, the share from consumer products has fallen to 52 percent. Sony is committed to the TV division, which by the end of March will have lost about 700 billion yen over eight years, Hirai said, but it will cut the range of sets. Sony will also review more than 2,000 consumer products it makes, and may exit unprofitable businesses. Announcing third-quarter earnings on Feb. 2, Sony forecast a 220 billion yen loss in the year ending March 31, the longest line of red ink since it went public in 1958. Hirai takes over in April from Howard Stringer, who spent seven years restructuring the company, trying to marry Sony's engineering capabilities to gaming software, music and film content. But Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple did a better job of delivering the integration of design and software across a platform of products, and Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics undercut Japanese manufacturers on cost. Sony's market value of $20 billion is one-sixth its 2000 peak. Samsung overtook Sony in 2002, and plans capital expenditure next year that's greater than its rival's entire stock valuation. Apple, worth less than $20 billion in 2000, is the world's most valuable company at about $460 billion. Sony will 'speed up' development of its technology and seek new products in which CMOS, or complementary metal-oxide semiconductors, can be used, Hirai said. Executive Vice President Hiroshi Yoshioka will head the medical business, and Tadashi Saito, who leads Sony's chip operations, takes on the new role of chief strategy officer. A breakthrough in Sony's CMOS technology that can deliver crisper images in dark conditions, such as those inside a patient's colon or esophagus, has helped the company gain sales. 'Sony is way ahead of its rivals,' said Yuji Fujimori, an analyst at Barclays who expects the chip unit to overtake financial services as the company's most profitable division. 'It's got good margin, too.' Fujimori predicts operating margins on semiconductors will jump to 17 percent by March 2014 from 10 percent this year. CMOS may help lift operating profit at Sony's semiconductor division to 90 billion yen in the year ending March 2014, from 40 billion yen in the 12 months to March 2012, he said. Sony is spending 140 billion yen to boost CMOS production, aiming to win a 30 percent share of shipments in the market for image sensors used in mobile phones, compared with 11 percent for the year ended March 2011. Sony's monthly capacity for chip wafers used to make the sensors will be lifted to 50,000 units by March 2012 and 75,000 units in the following three years, from 25,000 in Dec. 2010. Longer, more sedentary lives and richer diets are driving an increase in heart disease, cancers and diabetes, spurring demand for faster and more portable equipment to treat them. Sales in the world's 10 biggest markets for medical devices are estimated to grow 6.8 percent a year between 2010 and 2015 to reach $228 billion, according to MarketsandMarkets, a marketing research firm based in Dallas. Global sales of CMOS chips for medical and scientific equipment are forecast to grow at an annual compound rate of 21 percent between 2010 and 2015, Lineback said. The market for camera phone sensor sales is projected to grow about 8 percent a year over the same period, he said. Mobile phones will account for 49 percent of CMOS demand in 2015, from 62 percent now, IC Insights said. Comment?
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Sony Seen Restored Using Chips in Market Fighting Disease: Tech
Rising rates of cancer, obesity and heart disease may offer a path back to health for Sony Corp., as the ailing Japanese maker of televisions, cameras and game consoles turns to semiconductors to end unprecedented losses. Comment?
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Sony Incoming CEO Hirai Vows 'Painful' Steps to Cut Costs
Sony Corp. incoming Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai said he will make "a hard, painful decision" to cut costs in the TV business and supply chain to turn around a company facing a fourth straight annual loss. Comment?
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Sony's online service PlayStation Network will this week be renamed Sony Entertainment Network, as the company begins to consolidate all its online operations under one name. Comment?
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NXP Semiconductors's "Buy" Rating Reaffirmed by Goldman Sachs Analysts
... Products, Manufacturing Operations and Corporate and Other. On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH. On ... Comment?
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NXP Semiconductors's "Buy" Rating Reaffirmed by Jefferies Group Analysts
... Products, Manufacturing Operations and Corporate and Other. On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH. On ... Comment?
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Reshaping Sony through PlayStation strategy
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Visitos walk past the logo of Sony Playstation PS at Sony Computer Entertainment Japan news conference on the company's PlayStation Vita handheld games device in Tokyo, September 14, 2011. Comment?
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NXP Semiconductors Share Price Target Increased to $30.00 by Analysts at Barclays Capital
... Products, Manufacturing Operations and Corporate and Other. On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH. On ... Comment?
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Sony Seen Restored Using Chips in Market Fighting Disease
Rising rates of cancer, obesity and heart disease may offer a path back to health for Sony as the ailing Japanese maker of televisions, cameras and game consoles turns to semiconductors to end unprecedented losses. Comment?
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Sony, Nokia, Motorola set to raise handset orders to Taiwan, Digitimes reports
Sony , Nokia , and Motorola are expected to raise the level of their outsourcing of handsets to Taiwanese ODMs in 2012 in an effort to take back market share on Apple and Samsung, according to industry sources and reported in Digitimes. Comment?
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