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                    [Title] => Sony Corp. CEO breaks silence on 'The Interview' hack
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Sony Corp.'s top corporate executive on Monday condemned the recent hacking assault against its film division, saying his employees were victims of a "vicious and malicious cyberattack," while adding that he's proud of them for standing against "the extortionist efforts of criminals.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-06 14:11:11 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1180466 [AuthorName] => Brandon Bailey [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20150106/Gadget%20Show%20Sony_Guti.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1326794 [Title] => CEO: Sony needed to act sooner, but will reform [Summary] =>

Sony Corp. Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said Thursday the company accumulated huge losses because it didn't respond quickly enough to changing market conditions, but promised a return to profit next year.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-24 02:18:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1796133 [AuthorName] => Yuri Kageyama [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 918038 [Title] => Stringer leaving Sony in June, hands over to Hirai [Summary] =>

Howard Stringer, who fought to bring a divided and struggling Sony Corp. together as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's first foreign president, is retiring as chairman in June.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-10 13:02:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 854890 [Title] => Sony-Olympus alliance aims for high-tech surgery [Summary] =>

Sony's new alliance with scandal-tarnished Olympus will produce endoscopes and other surgical tools packed with the Japanese electronics and entertainment maker's three-dimensional imagery and super-clear display technology called 4K.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-01 10:25:49 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 805987 [Title] => Sony reports record annual loss [Summary] =>

Sony Corp. racked up a record annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion) in its fourth straight year of red ink as the once-glorious maker of the Walkman and PlayStation struggles toward a turnaround under a new president.

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Sony Corp. announced yesterday that Kazuo Hirai, who leads the company's core consumer products business, will replace Howard Stringer as CEO and president effective April 1, as the electronics and entertainment company desperately tries to engineer a turnaround.

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Sony reported a 27 billion yen ($346 million) loss for the latest quarter and downgraded its annual earnings forecast Wednesday to stay in the red for the fourth year straight, battered by the strong yen and poor sales of flat panel TVs.

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Kazuo Hirai, the head of Sony's PlayStation video game business said today that although there was no concrete evidence that information from 77 million credit cards registered by customers through Sony's PlayStation Network had been stolen by a hacker, the possibility did exist.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-01 21:23:31 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 525460 [Title] => Sony banks on new online service to boost brands [Summary] =>

TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said.

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TOKYO (AP) – Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.

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