Sony in talks to sell PC business 'for greater smartphone push'

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MoHasanie on 04 February 2014

I read about this yesterday. Lenovo has been on a spending spree lately buying IBM's business and then Motorolla from Google. But Lenovo is already the largest maker of pc's. so what's the point of buying Vaio? Also, Sony should be getting rid of their TV's as well!

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sales2099 said:
Soooo they are now selling actual divisions of their company to stay profitable?

Can't stay profitable when the divisions don't make any money. This is actually a good move.

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sales2099 said:

Fusioncode said:

sales2099 said:
Soooo they are now selling actual divisions of their company to stay profitable?

They're selling off unprofitable divisions. Kind of smart actually. Now they just need to get rid of their TV line.

As an electronics company, it is a sign of weakness instead of trying to rejuvinate it. The TV line too. Selling off buildings is one thing, but cutting off your own limbs is a slippery slope.

A sign of weakness? Sony is not doing well and they need to sell off liabilities. They're trying not to go bankrupt. No one believes that Sony is currently a strong company.

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Bruxel on 04 February 2014

its nice to see sony down size and cut off the slackers for better future

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JerCotter7 on 04 February 2014

sales2099 said:

Fusioncode said:

sales2099 said:
Soooo they are now selling actual divisions of their company to stay profitable?

They're selling off unprofitable divisions. Kind of smart actually. Now they just need to get rid of their TV line.

As an electronics company, it is a sign of weakness instead of trying to rejuvinate it. The TV line too. Selling off buildings is one thing, but cutting off your own limbs is a slippery slope.

What shit are you spouting.

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JerCotter7 said:

sales2099 said:

As an electronics company, it is a sign of weakness instead of trying to rejuvinate it. The TV line too. Selling off buildings is one thing, but cutting off your own limbs is a slippery slope.

What shit are you spouting.

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dsp333 on 04 February 2014

Wow, nice. Looks like Kaz is finally getting serious about cutting the fat.

Hopefully they'll have their TV division under control soon too. And with the game division largely fixed for the foreseeable future... Looks like Sony might be saved?

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sales2099 said:

JerCotter7 said:

sales2099 said:

As an electronics company, it is a sign of weakness instead of trying to rejuvinate it. The TV line too. Selling off buildings is one thing, but cutting off your own limbs is a slippery slope.

What shit are you spouting.

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They're losing a lot of money. "A sign of weakness" is for healthy company like Samsung or Google; Sony has been doing shit for the past decade and they have to cut their losses or risk going out of business.