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...Sony owns 65 per cent of Sony Financial and said it would pay ¥2,600 ($24) a share for the rest of the company, a premium of 26 per cent to Monday’s close....
...“Sony is the only Japanese electronics company to have surpassed its profit levels [from] before the Lehman crisis....
...We lead this newsletter with a rare interview in which Kenichiro Yoshida, chief executive of Sony, charts his company’s future....
...Electronic Arts recorded stronger sales than expected as it cashed in on the popularity of “battle royale” games, allaying investors’ worries over Fortnite competition....
...The plan is part of a broader digital push by ANA, which hopes to build on data collected from the 31m users of its airline miles to provide a range of services including real estate, insurance and health...
...This week Sony announced that the PS4’s success had helped the company to its first full-year net profit in three years....
...‘Spirit of new ideas’ “It became clear that Sony was confronting a dilemma faced by big companies,” says Mr Odashima, now deputy general manager of Sony’s new business creation department....
...Sony (Technology) 74. Coca-Cola (Consumer Goods) 75. Rolls-Royce (Aerospace) 76. Bank of America (Finance) 77. Barclays (Finance) 78. Monster Beverage (Consumer Goods) 79....
...In the insurance sector alone, Japanese companies struck $25bn of deals during 2015....
...Parent company Sony, the Japanese electronics and entertainment group, said this week that it expected the film division to report a 90 per cent year-on-year drop on operating profit to Y2.4bn ($20.2m) after...
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...Driverless cars are illegal in most parts of the world, and insurance and liability questions are unresolved....
...But the fox-hunting Yorkshireman – who, like RSA chairman Martin Scicluna, has no previous experience of running a big insurance company – has a tough challenge ahead....
...Conversely, companies such as Looxcie and V.I.O. are offering wearable video cameras designed to capture real-time point-of-view video clips....
...This week Nintendo’s former leader died, Electronic Arts has a new chief executive and Grand Theft Auto V has set a new sales record....
...GTA V’s debut comes at the tail-end of the hardware cycle begun by Microsoft Xbox 360 in 2005 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 in 2006, creating a potential customer base of 250m gamers who own the consoles needed...
...(Financial Times) One of the UK’s most senior litigators will put the Financial Conduct Authority ’s dealings with the media under the spotlight as he probes the regulator’s bungled announcement of an insurance...
...Sony’s profits have come from just a quarter of the business, namely entertainment – music and pictures – and insurance....
...A survey published in March by the Life Insurance Association of Japan found that just 37 per cent of companies offered ROE targets, below the 50 per cent share of 2008....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Sony has already executed the partial sale of another lucrative non-electronics business, its Japanese banking and insurance arm....
...could have on Samsung Electronics’ patent rights”.”...
...Third Point is taking on Sony at a time when the company is trying to shake off a long period of financial weakness....
...And the sort of sprawling conglomerates abhorred by popular investment theory abound. Sony’s mix of movies, music, insurance and electronics is reasonably constrained by Asian norms....
...(Financial Times) Google, Samsung, Huawei sued over Nortel patents: “Rockstar, the consortium that bought the Nortel patents for $4.5 billion, sued Samsung Electronics, HTC Corp, Huawei and four other companies...
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