Samsung Electronics Co. buys out Sony's stake in LCD joint venture The Times Of India Sony Corp. sold its stake in the venture with Samsung Electronics Co. to make liquid-crystal displays to the South Korean company after predicting an eighth consecutive year of losses from TVs amid sluggish demand. | Samsung will pay 1.08 trillion won ($935 million) in cash for Sony's stake in S-LCD...
Samsung Buys Out Sony in $934 Million LCD Panel Deal Newsfactor While LG Displays advances with its OLED innovations, Samsung is making competitive market moves of its own. Samsung on Monday announced plans to acquire all of Sony's shares in S-LCD, a joint venture that manufactures LCD screens. Samsung will pay Sony $934 million for the assets. | Under the terms...
Top 15 technology products of 2011—9: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V The Examiner | Most stores are out of stock on the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V digital camera and aren’t expecting new shipments until the end of January or early February 2012. | Continued from #10 | There is a reason Sony can’t keep up with the demand ...
Company controlled by Sony Europe faces liquidation after shutting stores Irish Times | BARRY O'HALLORAN | A COMPANY controlled by Sony Europe is facing liquidation after shutting three of the electronics giant's Irish stores without warning this week. | Hi Fi Corner will ask shareholders and creditors to wind up the company and appoi...
Nintendo, EA and Sony also rescind SOPA support Crunch Good news everyone. | (Also why do different branches of the same company take different positions..?) Reply @sparkster They're run by different people and hold different agendas. The music industry (which is the arm of Sony that still supports this)...
Nintendo, Sony Stop Supporting SOPA After Anonymous Threats Cinema Blend Reports are coming in that Nintendo has quietly backed out of supporting SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). Sony has also backed down, and it's allegedly because of further threats against the PSN from online hacking group, Anonymous. | According to Geek...
Actor Nolan North Explores the Making of Sony's Blockbuster 'Uncharted 3' (Q&A) The Hollywood Reporter share Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The star gives video gamers an inside look at one of the biggest games of 2011 in a newly-published book, “Uncharted: Drake’s Journal – Inside the Making of of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.” | Actor Nola...
Nintendo, EA and Sony also rescind SOPA support Joystiq Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics have apparently followed the example of Microsoft and the Business Software Alliance, and have removed their corporate monikers from of supporters for the increasingly unpopular Stop Online Piracy Act. N...
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Sony finds magazine's "Tattoo" plan "unacceptable" KDVR | LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sony Pictures is steaming over the New Yorker's plan to review David Fincher's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" on Monday. That will be eight days in...
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I&B; Minister Soni condoles Dev Anand's death Deccan Herald New Delhi, Dec 4, (PTI): Sunday, December 04, 2011 --> | Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni today condoled the death of Bollywood's evergreen star Dev Anand, saying ...
Sony Ericsson trademark filing reveals Xperia Ion name BGR | In the coming year, Sony Ericsson plans to have more of an Android presence in the United States. Earlier rumors suggested that Sony is planning a high-end smartphone that will land on AT&T, code-named “LT28at.” Additionally, anoth...
Anonymous targets Sony for SOPA support; names Bieber, Gaga, Kardashian The Examiner | Get ready Sony, here comes Anonymous. Because of Sony’s support for SOPA, Anonymous is threatening Sony with the destruction of their online network. | On Wednesday, those claiming to represent the international Internet hacktivist coll...
Sony Vita handheld game console may be sailing towards U.S. rocky shores The Examiner | A final stand?— | The debate about the end of handheld game consoles is nothing new. Pundits have been trying to bury the platform for years and have been ready to announce their demise and announce RIP. | But in an odd twist of fate, Sony ma...
Sales of Sony's PlayStation Vita tank The Daily Telegraph Australia | SONY'S new PlayStation Vita is not selling quite as well as it did when it first launched. | Though the company reportedly sold 321,400 Vitas in its first two days of availability in Japan, demand for the console appears to have tapered off dr...
Asian markets end wild 2011 on gains NZ Herald | Asian stock markets strengthened yesterday, the last day of a tumultuous trading year, after Wall St posted gains on positive US economic data. | Benchmark oil rose near US$100 per barrel and the dollar weakened against the yen and the euro. | Japan's Nikkei index, after three straight days of losses, rose 0.4 per cent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Inde...
Alcatel-Lucent plants two flags in Latin American soil: LTE and 100Gb/s cable Engadget Not content with newly arrived iTunes and Netflix, Latin America's growing population of web aficionados are seeing some major investment in high-speed internet services too. Alcatel-Lucent says it's won contracts to provide infrastructure for the region's first LTE network -- in Uruguay, to be precise -- as well as the first 100Gb/s optical cable ...
