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on February 03, 2012
February 4 news,Sony has in the normally lucrative Christmas period TVs sold less than the end of 2010. The group sold slightly more PS3s, but less PSPs and PS2’s. Sony recorded a substantial loss for the third quarter.
Sony has in its third fiscal quarter of 2011, a loss suffered from 159 billion yen, converted 1.58 billion euros. The Japanese group has his expectations for the results downwards. The reasons that Sony calls for the bad results are the floods in Thailand, the sale of the shares in the joint venture S-LCD and the acquisition of Sony Ericsson, while the strong yen would play a role.
Sony sold six million TVs in the period October to December 2011. A year earlier the company has sold 7.9 million TVs. Nevertheless, Sony maintains that for this year 20 million TVs can sell, as previously indicated. Sony sold fewer cameras and PCs than in the third quarter of 2010.
Sony knew something more PS3’s selling: sales increased from 6.3 to 6.5 million units. Sony expects its fourth quarter less Playstation 3 to sell. The company reduced the expected 15 million consoles to sell namely to 14 million. The sales of the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation 2 dropped seems to have had its day: Sony still sold 900,000, far less than the end of 2010, when there were 2.1 million went over the counter tips.
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on February 03, 2012
February 4 tech news,IBM would plan to remove thousands of jobs in Germany. That made a union spokeswoman said the company is known. IBM would in a major operation to replace permanent jobs temporary.
The reorganization, which IBM internally Generation Open is called, among other things would lead to about eight thousand of the twenty thousand jobs in Germany are deleted. Workers would be replaced by so-called liquidating workers . That is the term used for IBM employees temporarily recruited for a project. Through the use of this type of labor force hopes to IBM projects was 30 per cent faster ex-to have, while the costs with a third party should lessen the.
When and exactly how many layoffs there will occur is not yet decided. Nor is it clear whether jobs were eliminated in other countries as part of a reorganization news. IBM was unavailable for questions about possible layoffs in the Netherlands or Belgium. The group Reuters has announced that it does not officially have announced layoffs, but experiment with the use of temporary workers.
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on February 02, 2012
February 3 tech news,as reported in the financial report of the Canon, the fourth quarter of last year proved to be much more profitable for the company the same period in 2010. Net income increased by 13.9% to $ 800 million. But sales dropped slightly during this period, the decline was 9.7%.
At the same time, operating profit rose to a Japanese company 94.6%, which is 14.2% more than in 2010. If we talk about the company’s net profit for last year, she remained at the level of 2010, showing only a slight increase in 0.8%. Annual sales of Canon fell 4%, and total annual operating profit was 2.3% lower than in 2010.
Note that the company would change in top management. In late March of this year will go down Tsunedzi Usida, chief operating officer and president of Canon. Recall that the Canon is a leader in the Japanese market of digital electronics.
The company was founded in 1937, and until today it is at the top of the rankings of producers and video photography. In addition, Canon is not the last place in the Japanese segment of the global information technology market. The basis of the turnover of office equipment: printers and copiers, as well as cameras and camcorders. The main office is located in the capital Canon Japan.