Yoshida and Hirai shook hands, appearing together before reporters at Sony’s Tokyo headquarters. Hirai stressed Yoshida will continue the path he had set in place. “His way of thinking on what Sony must do is similar to mine,” Hirai said on why Yoshida was chosen. Also Friday, Sony reported fiscal third quarter profit of 296 billion yen ($2.7 billion), up dramatically from 19.6 billion yen the same period a year ago. Sony raised its net profit forecast to 480 billion yen ($4.4 billion) for the fiscal year through March, up dramatically from the 73 billion profit it recorded the previous fiscal year.

Source: National Post February 02, 2018 07:18 UTC