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Clear Channel signs lyric deal with Gracenote
US radio giant, Clear Channel, has signed a song lyric deal with Sony-owned digital entertainment firm, Gracenote, in a bid to expand its online services. Under the deal, listeners of some 800 Clear Channel radio stations in the US can now access and search lyrics from each station's website....
Sony-owned TV group sells 32% stake for USD320m - Rumour
Investors of Multi Screen Media, formerly known as Sony Entertainment Television, have found a buyer for their 32% stake, says Variety. The trade mag says billionaire Bhupendra K Modi is set to acquire the holding in the Indian TV group through his company, MCorp Global, which owns Spice Communications....
CDNetworks buys Japanese web content unit
South Korea's CDNetworks has acquired Hit Pops, a unit of Japanese satellite operator Space Communications, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will expand CDNetworks' customer base to include MSN Video, National Geographic Channel, Sony's online games division and Jupiter Shopping Channel. "Japan being a key...
Sony PSP Outsells Nintendo DS 2-to-1 in Japan in April
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's PlayStation Portable PSP handheld game gear outsold Nintendo Co Ltd's DS portable player more than 2-to-1 in Japan in April, game magazine publisher Enterbrain said. But in the console market, Nintendo sold five times as many...
Sony 07/08 Profit to Quintuple But Miss Target: Report
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's operating profit likely jumped more than fivefold to 380 billion yen ($3.6 billion) on strong sales of digital cameras in the year just ended, but it missed the company's forecast by 30 billion yen, the...
Great Intrapreneurs in Business History
These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
Sony, Others Investigated for Patent Infringement
Innovation may make the tech world go round, but it's not always pleasant when the bill comes due. It's happening to Sony's Blu-ray disc players and a 29 other electronics makers using light-emitting and laser diodes in their products. A retired Columbia professor filed a complaint charging Sony et al...
How Sony Competes Without Lowering Prices
In one of our feature packages, we highlighted how some companies generate profits without competing on the basis of price. It looks like Sony may have paid attention. With HDTV equipment prices above the competition, the company needed to do something to keep customers loyal. (Although the 2007 Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Index found the company...
Four Higher-Price Champions
The best way to win a pricing war is to avoid the fight entirely. These products do battle in tough markets, but they generate profits without competing on the basis of price. The Champion: Apple...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Chrysler, Clear Channel, Dell, and Sony
Chrysler Group said it would invest $1.8 billion in new and expanded factories in Michigan to remain competitive. Earlier this month, DaimlerChrysler said that it's in talks to sell Chrysler after it lost $1.5 billion in 2006. Chrysler said it made the move becausIn hopes of wooing key investors, buyout...
Pooling Its Resources
Sony has around 10,500 employees across Europe. While it may be philanthropic to offer support to every worker in every location, Sony's approach to talent management recognised the need for the company to identify and grow the talent required to lead the company in the future. These individuals would not...
CATIA V5 Helps Sony Car Audio Hit All the Right Notes
SONY's e-Vehicle car stereo department needed to reduce cycle times and costs caused by physical prototypes. CATIA V5 analysis modules enabled SONY to create and analyse a virtual 3D model with impressive accuracy. The number of physical prototypes have been cut from three or four to one, reducing costs and...
Emulation and the Video Game Industry, A White Paper
For the past several years the music industry has waged a controversial and unyielding battle against what it calls pirates. Will the video game industry follow suit, or will it chart a new direction for intellectual property management in information goods? A decade ago, video game emulators epitomized the cutting...
SAP and Sony Team Up to Keep Ahead in Competitive Retail Market
As the leading electronic and computer products solutions provider for Canadian consumers and businesses, Sony of Canada has long been a forerunner of innovation. Rapid product commoditization makes the consumer electronic and computer products market a very competitive space. Finding a better way to get the right products at the...
Sony Revisited: A New Look at Contributory Copyright Infringement
Digital technology and the Internet have brought about a crisis in copyright law enforcement unlike any previously seen. In the past, for copyright infringers to substantially damage the worldwide market for a copyrighted work, they had to expend considerable resources in producing the infringing products and had to have a...
Channel Conflict: Is Sony Going Too Far?
Sony SNE has recently seen channel conflict problems a few months ago. This company angered its retailers by requiring them to sell Sony music label CDs that included hyperlinks to Columbiahouse.com, which Sony partially owns, and Sony's own Music store on the web. Sony was beginning to explore selling direct...
Sony Case Study: Digital Assets in Non-Linear Editing: Tape Storage Solves Nagging Problem for Video Editors
The article describes about usage of digital content and storage. There's no question about it--the digital revolution has touched almost every aspect of audio and visual production. Nowhere have the changes been more dramatic, perhaps, than in the equipment, and practice, of non-linear editing. For editors, these systems remove many...
Case Study: Sony Music Distribution
A company with diverse products and customers, Sony needed a system that could handle finished goods destined for the consumer and other Sony facilities as well as raw materials to support manufacturing. This includes manufacturing support, retail distribution, fulfillment products and promotional items. After a lengthy selection process Sony purchased...
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Samsung Reclaims Top LCD TV Share in North America; Vizio Overtakes Sony For #2 in Total Flat Panel Share, According to DisplaySearch
AUSTIN, Texas -- After Sony posted the top LCD TV share in Q4'07, Samsung edged slightly higher to retake the #1 LCD TV ranking in North America for the first time since Q1'07, rising to 12.8% unit share in a competitive category. Samsung maintained their share lead in combined flat...
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Music *Six tracks from Scarlett Johansson's new album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, are posted as a 25-minute listening party at scarlettalbum.com. *We7.com streams songs from Sony/BMG artists for free. *Spin.com has an excerpt from its cover story about My Morning Jacket at spin.com/articles/james-gang....
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