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Companies and Brands
Smartphone, Tablet Gaming Far Outpaces Handheld Console Games
More than a third of that total of more than 2.8 million portable devices are used for gaming: more than a billion in fact.
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Sony Group Corp
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Consumer Electronics
Why Sony’s Profit Forecast Is Unbelievable
Sony has set a profit forecast of 500 billion yen for its 2017 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2018. This is not believable, based on Sony's performance in recent years.
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Special Report
America’s Most Hated Companies
To be truly hated, a company must alienate a large number of people. It may irritate consumers with bad customer service, upset employees by paying low wages, and disappoint Wall Street with…
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Special Report
The World’s Most Innovative Companies
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued 300,678 utility patents in 2014, many of them to just a handful of companies. More patents were issued in 2014 than in any…
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Consumer Electronics
Chinese Gamers Will Wait Longer for Sony PlayStation 4 Intro
Sony said in a statement Thursday that the scheduled January 11 launch of the company’s PlayStation 4 in China has been delayed.
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Infrastructure
FBI Looks for Cyber Agents
The FBI has posted job openings for Special Agent (Cyber), a sign that the law enforcement agency may more aggressively try to counter cyberattacks.
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Media
Will YouTube Make Money on ‘The Interview’?
There is an old saying that any publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell your name right. That may apply in the case of "The Interview" from Sony Pictures.
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Technology
More Proof That Patents Worth Millions (or Billions!)
RPX has announced that a subsidiary will purchase the patent assets of Rockstar Consortium.
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Retail
Walmart’s Last-Minute Christmas Specials
“Super Saturday” was this past weekend, a day that ShopperTrak said would be the number one selling day of the year, surpassing even Black Friday.
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Technology
Sony Hackers Got Studio Dirt, 47,000 SSNs
Fallout from the hacker attack on the Sony movie studio continued last week as various documents were made public.
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Media
If Sony Pulls ‘The Interview,’ Losses Will Hit Tens of Millions of Dollars
Among the demands made by hackers who broke into the online systems of Sony Pictures is that the company not release a movie that makes fun of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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Media
Robot Viewing of Ads to Shake Major Media
According to a new study, computers controlled by hackers "view" about a quarter of all video ads on the Web, meaning 25% of inventory sold to advertisers is useless.
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Apps & Software
When Will Hackers Take Down Facebook?
If hackers want to take down the most visible network in the world and prove how adept they are at breaching software that keeps the Internet safe, they will hack Facebook.
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Technology
Hacker Attack on Sony Includes Threats to Employees
ThinkstockLast week’s attack on the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) now appears to be more serious than the theft of unreleased movies. Employees of the company received threatening emails on Friday that claimed…
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Consumer Electronics
Sony PlayStation Marks 20th Anniversary
The Sony PlayStation, arguably the game console that ushered in the current generation of gaming, has turned 20 years old.