Wow, nice addition to Music Entertainment, Sony.
OT: Not enough doom in this thread.

EMI was bleeding money for some time now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/04/emi-music-announces-massive-loss

So I see the potential in being the biggest player in the music industry (who doesn't?!). But is this the right timing for Sony? They are losing money, they buy another company that is losing money to be the biggest player in a decreasing industry.

It is definitely a pretty risky move.

Shouldn't you post a picture of Clive Davis and not some East Asian guy?

Kaz working on rescuing Sony, I see.

I'm almost sure that this bid was made before Kaz, the EU commission is really slow with their competition approvals.

No, but they are taking wise moves to recoup.

I get that impression from the article as well


seems good news for Sony, I'm sure in the future this will be a very profitable acquisition 

Interesting move. Certainly current trends indicate that content will be king with a lot of competition for delivery device.

I wonder if Sony will take the right approach here or overly focus on using the content to try and shift hardware?

IMHO they need to strike the right balance between making the content available through non Sony devices and maximising return on the content while showing a customer value add to getting the content through their device to boost interest in Sony hardware for delivery.

that's why I didn't bother to respond

becasue what's hardware without software