Sony sells Vaio PC business

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Sony sells off its PC business. The brand was well known as Vaio. The PC business is sold for many reasons. The Sony officials say that they are addressing various options. The laptop arm is very important for them.

Sony sells vaio

Sony sells Vaio PC Business

Recently the financial results for Q3 2013 were announced and they took the decision according to the statistics. The VAIO brand is getting sold to the Japan Industrial Partners. The deal is to be done by the end of March 2014.

Sony claims that there was a drop in the demand of PC`s. the CEO kaz hirai said that it was a very “agonizing decision”. This will surely shake the PC market. The company says that they will no longer design and develop PC products.

Their main aim shifts to mobile business. The manufacturing and sales will get closed after the company`s VAIO range sets sold off globally. Their focs is fully on smartphones and tablets. The Sony sales increases a lot in the mobile atmosphere. the year on year sales increase will make them happier.

But Sony is still in a loss of $1.1 Billion for the full year. The PS4 is one of the flagship products from Sony. The PS4 units were sold in a bunch. Sony managed to sell 4.2 million units and sold of 9.7 million games in the first six units itself. The games section also saw a dramatic increase in the Playstation subscriptions.

As they sell off their PC business there will be a cut of 5,000 jobs worldwide, which include 1,500 employees from Japan at the end of the 2014 year. The PC company stated that the new company will only hire 250 to 300 employees to help thim in the design, manufacturing and sales process.

The Nagano is a place where the sony`s current VAIO HQ resides. The company promises to fullfil all the warranties of the existing customers. Sony focusses on high end gadgets and the 4k screens. The making of the TV business, the smartphone business and the gaming console business are the forte of Sony.

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