Freshly minted Sony CEO Kaz Hirai has
revealed his plan to turn around Sony's fortunes and as rumored, it includes significant cuts. Two days ago, the company
revised its projections for the 2011 fiscal year to reflect a $6.4 billion loss. The One Sony plan includes
reducing headcount by 10,000 in the 2012 financial year, a number that also reflects jobs leaving Sony as businesses are sold or otherwise reorganized, and will cost it 75 billion yen ($926 million) during 2012. Currently, the plan is to focus on digital imaging, gaming and mobile for growth, until those three make up 70 percent of its total sales in 2014. As far as its beleaguered HDTV business, it's going forward with the plans
announced during CES to streamline the product line, reduce its costs, and return to profitability by 2014. Looking forward, there's slightly fuzzier promises to "develop and commercialize"
OLED and
Crystal LED technology. Beyond those the idea is to expand in emerging markets, as well as medical and
4K related technologies. There's more details in the press release after the break and presentation slides linked below, we'll let you know if there's any more information revealed on a conference call later on today.
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