{"id":40284,"date":"2013-06-20T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=40284"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:35:10","slug":"sony-considering-entertainment-spinoff-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/40284\/sony-considering-entertainment-spinoff-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony considering entertainment spinoff: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai said on Thursday that the electronics firm&#8217;s board will consider hedge fund Third Point&#8217;s suggestion to spin-off the electronics company&#8217;s profitable entertainment arm.<\/p>\n<p>Hirai made the comments at an annual shareholders&#8217; meeting in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Hirai said it was important for Sony to revitalize its electronics division as well as to continue growth of its entertainment and financial businesses, which have steadily contributed profits to the overall group.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony to evaluate Entertainment spinoff\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/38334\/sony-to-evaluate-entertainment-spinoff\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony to evaluate Entertainment spinoff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony hacker sentenced\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/36127\/sony-hacker-sentenced\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony hacker sentenced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony chairman Howard Stringer to retire\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/33263\/sony-chairman-howard-stringer-to-retire\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony chairman Howard Stringer to retire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony aims to be a mega mobile player\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/32704\/sony-aims-to-be-a-mega-mobile-player\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony aims to be a mega mobile player<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai said on Thursday that the electronics firm&#8217;s board will consider hedge fund Third Point&#8217;s suggestion to spin-off the electronics company&#8217;s profitable entertainment arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,385,5902,2048],"class_list":["post-40284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-sony","tag-sony-entertainment","tag-third-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40303,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284\/revisions\/40303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}