Sony to buy Israeli Altair Semiconductor for $200 million
Sony is set to buy Israeli company Altair Semiconductor, which develops single-mode LTE chipsets, for $200 million. The company has raised $135 million to date. Established in 2005 by former Texas More...
Sony Pictures pays $8 million to settle hack lawsuit with employees
Sony Pictures has agreed to pay up to $8 million to resolve a lawsuit by employees who claimed their personal data was stolen during the major 2014 hack of the company. The hack, related to the release More...
Sony launches new Gold and Silver tiers for Xperia Lounge app
Xperia-lounge-App Sony unveiled the Xperia Lounge app last week, bringing an entire new user interface. Sony talked concerning new Lounge tiers that might bring exclusive Sony content to Gold and Silver owners. More...
Sony launched a new crowdfunding website for employee projects
sony-first-flight Last year, Sony unveiled a business program that inspired employees to develop the foremost innovative ideas they will consider in a trial to search out new hits. Now, Sony has launched More...
Tom Rothman Speaks Out On Plans for Sony
– – We all remember last year’s scandal over the “Great Sony Hack of 2014. The leaked information led to the departure of Sony Picture’s CEO and her replacement with Tom Rothman. More...
Ousted Amy Pascal Now Protects her Privacy with 4 Different Cell Phones
Due to the whole Great Sony Hack of 2014, Sony Pictures’ freshly ousted head Amy Pascal is said to be using four different cell phones. According to a new story in Vanity Fair she is also using various More...
Jeff Robinov’s Fosun-backed Studio to produce New Ang Lee Film
Jeff Robinov’s Fosun-backed Studio 8, together with Chinese distribution company Bona Film Group, will partner with Tom Rothman’s TriStar and Film4 on the adaptation of Ben Fountain’s acclaimed More...
Kim Jong Un Aside, Why Not Invest In Korea?
Well here’s the ultimate contrarian investing idea: invest in North Korea. Never mind that there is a tyrant Kim Jong Un who runs the country and is none too enamored of the West. North Korean hackers More...
Harvey Weinstein Denies Smearing Selma
While there is no doubt Harvey Weinstein campaigns hard ahead of Oscar season, he is the last guy, at least in his book, to do dirty tricks, and he certainly didn’t smear the film Selma, More...
Keshet Media Prepares for Third Annual International Convention to be Held in Jerusalem
Israel’s Keshet Media Group is preparing for its third annual Innovation in Television convention in Jerusalem to be held in March. Keshet developed the Israeli television show Prisoners of War which was remade More...