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Sony To Cut About 10K Jobs

Posted by Zonk on from the fewer-trinitron-crafters dept.

Pichu0102 writes "Reported by the Washington Post, Sony says it will cut about 7% of its jobs as well as sell about $1 billion of it's assets. It also will declare a loss for this year." From the article: "To help boost efficiency, Sony said it has abolished the company system that Stringer said was preventing different business units from communicating freely, causing overlap in development and missed opportunities in the market. The electronics group will be reorganized to place centralized decision-making over key business areas under Ryoji Chubachi, who became Sony's new president and electronics CEO in a major overhaul of management in June." Another reorg on the heels of Microsoft's decision from earlier this week.

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  1. Seriously. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who in their right mind would want to watch shit-quality movies on their PSP? Whoever came up with that idea should be shot.

    1. Re:Seriously. by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Better yet, Sony should open up the PSP to more codecs, and give users easy ways to ADD videos to their PSP, encode them, library them, and give them a better OS. The PSP is too fucking hacky, and they're taking far to long to figure out what to do with it. The users already know. They want to put their videos and music on it, and use it like a fucking ipod. WHATS SONY DOING? Nothing. Fucking sony and they're UMD movies.

  2. Lame Sony by Elranzer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They just can't admit that their PSP was a failure and that Blu-Ray (aka BetamaxDisc) and the PlayStation3 are going to bankrupt them. Instead they take it out on their employees and continue to push their doomed technology. Lame Sony, lame.

  3. New Ad Campaign Not Working? by lbmouse · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sony: Because Caucasians Are Just Too Damn Tall

  4. Re:Sony by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait


      Sony Trinitron was the $hit for many years.

    So if a product is "shit", that's bad. But if a product is "the shit", that's good. People whine about 1984-speak all the time but then go ahead and fuck with the language anyway because it's trendy to do so. Losers.