Sony purchases 11% of Olympus

[DirtyP2002]

M.U.G.E.N said:

DirtyP2002 said:

You might like this, here are some spendings Sony did in the past 12 months:

• 380 Million USD for Gaikai
• 644 million for 11% of Olympus
• 2.2 billion for EMI (Well it was a group of investors, led by Sony. The biggest investor was a company from Abu-Dhabi though)
• 1.35 billion for the missing 50% of Sony Ericsson from Ericsson

Isn't that strange for a company that reported a 4.3 billion USD loss in the past year and hasn't been profitable for almost 5 years now? Especially with their downgraded rating 3 days ago.

The medical business is profitable, but it is also highly competitive. Philips, Siemens, GE or Agfa Healthcare won't just sit there and see how Sony does.

@bolded: not at all. To put it in the simplest of terms, you got to spend money to make money. And all the ones you listed are good investment choices. And I'm sure there's more too. I remember them buying a new lense making factory a while back as well. THe company as a whole is going through some major restructuring and refocusing now.

here's the one I was talking about

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hPJhW-b-9ryflRHoiz8BIxNhdXng?docId=CNG.f49ea2abd665cb7a7cb0dbbad1fc7346.651

This is how you get out of a slump..by being active and having some good long term goals/investments

Okay, anything else except phrases?