{"id":4740,"date":"2014-11-06T05:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/06\/sony-corp-reports-12bn-quarterly-net-loss\/"},"modified":"2014-11-06T05:47:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T05:47:34","slug":"sony-corp-reports-12bn-quarterly-net-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/11\/06\/sony-corp-reports-12bn-quarterly-net-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Corp. reports $1.2bn quarterly net loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1079\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sony_music.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>Electronics giant Sony made a net loss of $1.2bn for the quarter ending September 30, according to its latest set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20141031005233\/en\/Sony-Corp-UK-Regulatory-Announcement-Consolidated-Financial#.VFii70gnJmY\" target=\"_blank\">financial results<\/a> for its fiscal Q2. In 2012 CEO Kazuo Hirai vowed to return the Sony Music parent&#8217;s  failing electronics business to profit but estimated earlier this year  that Sony would not be making any profit until 2015.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The firm attributes the poor results to its mobile phone business  that is struggling against competition from the likes of Apple and  Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>Sony also reported an operating loss of 85.6bn ($<span class=\"st\">785m)<\/span> yen  for same quarter although sales increased by 7.2% from the same time  last year to 1.9bn yen ($17.4m)\u00a0for the period, compared with a year  ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics giant Sony made a net loss of $1.2bn for the quarter ending September 30,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}