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6:02AM John Herrman | The words of Sir Howard Stringer, Chief Executive and Lead Turnaroundologist at the listing company, where no amount of superficially revamped game consoles and Christmas holidays seem to be able to brighten Sony’s outlook. More »
Live, From Sony’s Recovery Effort
6:02AM John Herrman | The words of Sir Howard Stringer, Chief Executive and Lead Turnaroundologist at the listing company, where no amount of superficially revamped game consoles and Christmas holidays seem to be able to brighten Sony’s outlook. More »
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Sir Howard Stringer Is Sony Ericsson’s New Chairman Of The Board
1:37AM Mark Wilson | Howard Stringer hasn’t managed to tame the 1000-armed octopus that is Sony just yet, but we like the man’s way of thinking. And being named Sony Ericsson’s new Chairman of the Board (starting October 15) certainly can’t hurt the Ericsson end of things. Neither can Sony Ericsson’s new chief. [Sony Ericsson]
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New Sony Ericsson Chief Is Ready To Make The Obvious Choices
11:10PM John Herrman | Why should you care that Sony Ericsson, which has been in all kinds of restructuring turmoil for months, has had its Chief Executive replaced? Because the new guy, Bert Nordberg, has some practical, but distinctly un-Sony-Ericsson-like views on smartphones. More »
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Sony’s Interior Walls Are Slowly Coming Down
11:00AM Jason Chen | Sony’s problem wasn’t just that its right hand didn’t know what its left hand was doing, it was that its right index finger didn’t even know that its right thumb belonged on the same hand. But they’re changing. Slowly. More »
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When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
6:20AM John Herrman | Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here’s a glance at their lives circa 1979: More »
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Sony Boss Not Terribly Impressed By Activision PS3 Threats
6:42PM John Herrman | When the largest game publisher in the world threatens to stop making games for your console, what do you do? Do you negotiate, as was their obvious goal? Or do you sarcastically poke fun at their CEO? Ah, right. More »
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Why Sony’s Howard Stringer Has One Of The Hardest Jobs In The World
8:59PM John Herrman | Fortune’s profile-cum-appraisal of Howard Stringer and his efforts to reform Sony paints a fairly bleak picture. Stringer’s got some solid ideas, but implementing them sounds like a nightmare, and the future—even in his hopeful forecast—is alarmingly hazy. More »
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How the New Sony Will Become Awesome Again
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | What you might’ve missed about Sir Howard becoming Emperor of Sony is that it means he won the war to reorganise it—meaning Sony’s stuff could become awesome again. More »
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Sir Howard Stringer Named Supreme Leader of All Things Sony
11:10PM John Herrman | Howard Stringer, up until now Sony’s CEO and most public face, has been named President as well. An interesting move, as he’s always been surpisingly frank about Sony’s unwieldy size and structure. More »
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