Kaneko A, Cho S, Hirai K, Okabe T, Iwasaki K, Nanba Y, Ouchi Y, Cyong JC.
At this point Loeb thinks Hirai should have been more decisive in his leadership, and clearer with his focus.
Hirai will also demonstrate the latest (or perhaps new?) Sony phones, says Stringer.
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Hirai says he is leading a new group researching user experience improvements.
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Nokia's Stephen Elop and Kazuo Hirai of Sony each took over their companies at moments when the markets and consumers had turned against them.
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai strongly suggested that his company would be more than happy to announce its next console after Microsoft had a chance to go first.
Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony takes the stage.
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Hirai went on to talk vaguely about increased security measures aimed at preventing future hacks, including upgraded encryption, more firewall protections, and an early warning system to detect attacks.
The success of a new PlayStation is especially critical for Sony and new Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai, who is trying to stop financial bleeding in the company's other electronics operations.
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Kazuo Hirai, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sony Computer Entertainment America, submitted written answers to questions posed by the subcommittee about the large-scale, criminal cyber-attack we have experienced.
The most anticipated news is what it projects for 2013, a year where CEO Kaz Hirai has promised better integration between its products and of course, the PlayStation 4.
Under the leadership of Kazuo Hirai, we have teams working around the clock and around the world to restore your access to those services as quickly, and as safely, as possible.
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Its presentation, led by new boss Kazuo Hirai, was the most polished of the three with the one exception of a prototype TV which was supposed to be the grand finale.
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But the online service was still unprofitable, says Hirai.
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Kazuo Hirai, who took over as president nine months ago, has promised to deliver a new range of "wow" products in order to re-establish Sony as the premier electronics and entertainment company.
Kaz Hirai, on the Sony conference call, announced plans to retool the TV business to bring production to 20 million rather than 40 million, with an eye to returning to profit in FY2013.
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai and about 40 other top executives at the company will forego bonuses this year as the Japanese firm struggles to regain its footing in an increasingly competitive global electronics market.
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"Tim has been a strong leader within Sony who truly embodied the 'One Sony' spirit by successfully leading corporate-wide initiatives across business units since he joined, " said Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO, Sony Corporation.
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Hirai Yoshimitsu, deputy secretary-general of the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan, predicts that within a decade, half of Japan's e-commerce will be conducted over non-PC devices such as phones and public computer kiosks.
Hirai says Sony has been shipping OLED displays.
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That presentation will be from Kazuo Hirai.
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When Hirai became CEO last year he vowed to return the PlayStation manufacturer to profitability by cutting 10, 000 jobs while shifting the company away from its struggling television brand and toward a focus on video games. smartphones, and cameras.
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Forty of Sony's top executives, including Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive since last year, are to give up bonuses worth 30-50 per cent of their pay after they failed to keep a promise to return the division to profit.
"As part of our strategic initiatives announced in April 2012, at Sony we are aggressively pursuing the growth of our medical business, with the aim of developing it into a key pillar of our overall business portfolio, " said Sony's chief executive Kazuo Hirai.
It's been a year since Kaz Hirai took the reins, and with his "One Sony" restructuring plan well underway and (what everyone suspects is) a PlayStation 4 event around the corner, 2013 is as important a year as the company has ever had.
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Despite rumors that both Microsoft and Playstation would be revealing new consoles at E3 this year, Sony Deputy president Kazuo Hirai told a roundtable of reporters at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas, according to the Wall Street Journal, that that is definitely not the case.
As ever, Sony's IFA press conference was a veritable storm of products, but CEO Kaz Hirai was clearly the most excited about the company's new 84-inch 4K TV, the Bravia KD-84X9005, and after beholding the thing for a bit alongside a scrum of fellow tech journalists in Sony's booth at IFA, it's pretty clear why.
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We've also got interviews galore -- we'll be talking with Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, SMS Audio CEO (and rapper, we're told) 50 Cent, rally car driver Ken Block, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis and CEA president Gary Shapiro among many, many others (including a very special appearance from Gallagher -- this is Vegas, after all).
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