Kazuo Hirai To Assume CEO Position At Sony

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 1, 2012 @03:17AM from the moving-on-up dept.

thomst writes "Cnet's Stephen Shankland breaks the news that Sony will replace the lamentable Howard Stringer with Kazuo Hirai, the (now former) head of its electronics division. Better yet, the changeover will take place on April Fool's Day. Stringer, who was appointed CEO of Sony in 2005, will become Chairman of its board, and Hirai will become a board member. Hirai has been the leader of Sony's consolidated electronics group only since last year. He was in charge of all Sony electronics products, including the Playstation Network, which famously suffered a massive security breach that compromised its unencrypted user data on his watch."

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At least they didn't make Stringer commit seppuku by elrous0 · 2012-02-01 03:17 · Score: 0, Troll

I mean, he probably SHOULD...but they're not going to MAKE him.
I just hope Hirai's first speech to the board doesn't include the sentence "I propose we introduce a new propriety format."

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punish wrongdoers by... by Tastecicles · 2012-02-01 03:29 · Score: 1, Troll

...promoting them? Is Sony a bank now? Did I blink and miss something?

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Bring back Kutaragi. by RyuuzakiTetsuya · 2012-02-01 03:34 · Score: 0, Troll

The ship is burning. Vita looks like a wreck. Bring back Kutaragi. The only guy at SCE with taste.

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