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Kasz216 on 26 December 2013
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DamnTastic said:
NYCrysis said:

Now if google were to buy Sony
Google and Sony have similar business ethics.
Google likes to sell hardware on cost while hoping for profits from software like sony does for playstation.
Sony's designs are unrivaled and with google software they would be HUGE.
Google can afford to make Sony's entertainment business exclusive to their products thus a HUGE benefit to google's ecosystem.
Playstation can really help google's mainstream social media business as well integrating google+ and google hangouts to PS4.

Sony is virtually untouchable when it comes to patent infringment as they are the ONLY Android manufacturer not to ever get sued. With Sony's patents google will destroy apple/microsoft in court. Sony's patent portifolio is one of the largest in the industry. If that rockstar consortium went for 4.5 billion and moto went for 12.5 billion I really do wonder how undervalued Sony is.

This is also possible! 
I think google has even more cash than apple, or at least very close to it.

And yes sony is really undervalued atm. 

I'm not so sure.

While the likely dominance of the PS4 hasn't been fully priced in... a LOT of Sony's stock gain recently has just been on the assumption that they will benefit from a successful Abenomics plan.

Meanwhile, abenomics seems to be having some issues in that the companies that have made tons of money off of it... are just hanging on to their cash reserves.

Sony meanwhile... is still in debt... and it's structural reforms seem to be slow going.   The most noteable being the cancelation of the OLED TV product line and the selling of Gracenote... for like 100 Million or so less then they paid for it.  (Which was like $200 million) so they haven't exactly cut that much fat.

 

Sony isn't quite a Zombie firm, it does have a lot of debt... and one of the things Abenomics plans to do is to let zombie firms fail by allowing lending rates to increase.

If this hits before Sony hits year round profitability that could greatly increase costs.

Sony is very much a gamble right now.