Sony and Sharp supply parts to U.S.-blacklisted China security video firm Hikvision
Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. have supplied parts to video surveillance company Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., one of 28 Chinese entities blacklisted by the United States last month over human rights violations, the Chinese company's product brochures show. Hikvision — the world's largest video ...
Sony Corp. is in talks to acquire a stake in the Indian television network controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, as the Japanese giant seeks to tap booming demand for content in the South Asian nation, according to people familiar with the matter. The Tokyo-based company ...
Sony Corp. will open its first research center in India in 2020 to study the application of artificial intelligence technology to businesses. The Tokyo-based company will establish the center in Bengaluru, known as India's Silicon Valley, in the state of Karnataka, according to a company ...
Sony to open first Southeast Asian video game studio in Malaysia in 2020
Sony Corp.'s gaming arm will establish its first Southeast Asian video game studio in Malaysia in 2020. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC and the Malaysian government jointly said the studio, named Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., will provide art and animation to develop ...
Limbless writer Hirotada Ototake blazes trail of hope with artificial leg project
Hirotada Ototake, a writer born without arms and legs who is best known for his 1998 memoir "No One's Perfect," has embarked on a project to develop electrically operated "robot" legs that will enable him and others like him to walk. The 43-year-old Ototake, who ...
Six major Japanese electronics makers see net profits plummet amid U.S.-China trade war
Six of seven major Japanese electronics makers suffered year-on-year drops in group net profits in April-September, according to earnings reports released Friday. Net profit slid 1.9 percent to ¥189.2 billion at Hitachi Ltd., 14.9 percent to ¥340 billion at Sony Corp., 11.2 percent to ¥100.9 ...
Sony records strongest Q2 profit as image sensor demand offsets slide in gaming earnings
Sony Corp. on Wednesday said operating profit jumped 16 percent in its strongest-ever result for a second quarter, as robust sales of image sensors offset a tumble in earnings from its gaming division. The results, which beat estimates, prompted the entertainment and electronics firm to ...
U.S. activist fund laments Sony's rejection of spinoff proposal for 'uncut rough stone' chip unit
U.S. activist hedge fund Third Point LLC expressed frustration Thursday over Sony Corp.'s decision to stick with the status quo and turn down a proposal to spin off its lucrative semiconductor business. "It is difficult for us to imagine that a company of Sony's size ...
Sony plans to launch PlayStation 5 for next year's holiday season
Sony Corp.'s highly anticipated next-generation PlayStation will go on sale in time for the holiday season next year. The PlayStation 5 will come with a high-speed solid-state drive, Ryzen processor and Radeon graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 8K resolution video and a unit ...
Sony explains reasons for rejection of plan to spin off semiconductor business
Sony Corp. has clarified why it rejected a proposal by the U.S. hedge fund Third Point LLC that the electronics and entertainment giant spin off its semiconductor business. In June, Third Point announced a $1.5 billion investment in Sony and called on it to split ...
Japan Display to extend Ishikawa plant closure on soft iPhone sales as it mulls next-gen OLED plan
Japan Display Inc. said Friday it will extend the closure of its plant in Ishikawa Prefecture due partly to Apple Inc.'s weak iPhone sales as it considers a plan to make new organic light-emitting diode displays there instead. The struggling panel maker said in June ...
Sony unveils 40th anniversary Walkman with retro screensaver, but no Japan release planned yet
Sony Corp. unveiled Thursday a 40th anniversary Walkman featuring a case and a screensaver that give it the appearance of the original cassette tape music player. The screensaver, which features a cassette tape image, is displayed while music is being played so that the anniversary ...
