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BBC NEWS | Business | Sony to cut plants and 8,000 jobs
news.bbc.co.uk - 12/9/2008
BBC NEWS | Business | Sony to cut plants and 8,000 jobs
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Sony has announced plans to cut 8,000 electronics jobs - 5% of the division - as well as shutting 10% of its manufacturing sites. The company said the jobs would be cut by April 2010, but did not say in which countries the staff would go. Sony said it would also cut at least 8,000 temporary and ...
technology.timesonline.co.uk - 12/8/2008
PlayStation fiends finally get a second life
— technology.timesonline.co.uk — The annual battle of the consoles that takes place every Christmas will heat up this week when... Sony launches its own version of Second Life for the PlayStation 3. The new service, called PlayStation Home, will allow players to create an online ... (more) PlayStation fiends finally get a second life

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sony.net - 12/9/2008
Sony Global - Press Release -Sony Announces Initiatives to Improve Profitability and Enhance ...
— sony.net — Particularly within its electronics business, where Sony has been most affected by the acute downturn in the... economic climate, the company has already undertaken certain short-term measures, including adjusting production, lowering inventory levels, ... (more) Sony Global - Press Release -Sony Announces Initiatives ...

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Sony: Home launch 'imminent,' will arrive this month in the US
joystiq.com - 12/9/2008
Sony: Home launch 'imminent,' will arrive this month in the US
— joystiq.com — Amid rumors of a December launch for PlayStation Home, SCEA has confirmed to Joystiq that the social... platform's public, open beta phase will arrive before the end of calendar year 2008, as we've been hearing for some time . "We've been saying it ... (more) Sony: Home launch 'imminent,' will arrive this month in ...

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Sony cutting plants, 8,000 jobs by April 2010
Joystiq — ... As we've spun wildly, frolicking in the shower of new, exciting games being released, there has, apparently, been a little financial trouble in ... well, in all of existence. We've now emerged from our game coma long enough to survey the damage which is, again, hitting ...

Sony Cuts 8,000 Jobs — Time to Cut the PS3, Too? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... With the economy deep in the throes of a recession, the only question these days is who — or what — is next? Today it was Sony’s turn, which, citing “the sudden and rapid changes in the global economic environment,” said it’s laying off 8,000 employees in its electronics division and shuttering 10 percent of its manufacturing facilities. In the subsequent corporate restructuring to come, “unprofitable or non-core businesses” are in the firing line, Game Industry Biz reports — most notably, the ...

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