Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, accidentally told everyone in the world that his company will be supplying image sensors for Apple's iPhone 5.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria talks to Sony CEO Howard Stringer about the cultural strengths of Japan that will lead that disaster stricken nation to recovery.
These days Howard Stringer makes his home in a hotel suite in an affluent Tokyo neighborhood not far from Sony headquarters. It's a comfortable but far from palatial space consisting of a bedroom, bathroom, and decent-size living-dining area with a small desk that he has outfitted with a PC and fax machine. Among the few personal touches are photos of his family -- his wife, Jennifer, and two children live in the country outside London -- some books he is reading, and an intricate Spider-Man sculpture made of chocolate that the staff of the hotel gave him on his 67th birthday in February.
The Oscars were a non-event this year for Sony - the studio took home only one gold statue - but Sir Howard Stringer was in town with plenty to celebrate.
CNET's Daniel Terdiman discusses the growing experiment that is Second Life -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
CNNMoney: Tech picks disappointupdated: Mon Jul 03 2006 11:43:00
The stock pickers here at CNNMoney have been positively overflowing with optimism this year.
One day last July, two naked men lowered themselves into a hot spring in Hakone, a Japanese tourist town known for its beautiful lake and views of Mount Fuji. One was a pallid, curly-haired 63-year...
In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These four men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground....
One day last July, two naked men lowered themselves into a hot spring in Hakone, a Japanese tourist town known for its beautiful lake and views of Mount Fuji.
Movies, video games, MP3 players, and TVs. Is there anything that Sony doesn't make?
Howard Stringer calls himself the "Sony warrior." Now he's got himself a war. On March 28, Toshiba will be the first to enter the high-def-videodisc battlefield when it launches a $499 HD-DVD playe...
Fortune: 10 On the Spotupdated: Thu Feb 09 2006 11:02:00
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At least he didn't sugarcoat it. Last year, when CEO Howard Stringer announced his restructuring plan for the beleaguered giant, he compared Sony's plight to that of the Russian army defending Moscow against Napoleon.
Business 2.0: Sony to buy your Dellupdated: Fri Jan 20 2006 15:07:00
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony CEO Howard Stringer joked that if you want an expensive laptop, buy a Vaio.
It's been a long seven months for Sir Howard Stringer. Since being named Sony's first non-Japanese CEO back in March, Stringer, 63, has thrown himself into the daunting task of reviving the struggl...
It's been about six months since Sony did the unthinkable and tapped a non-Japanese executive to lead it.
Incoming Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer is immediately being thrust into a new role: peacemaker. For years a battle over the format of next-generation high-definition DVDs has been looming, and now ...
Nobuyuki Idei was in a quandary. It was mid-January 2005, and the weary Sony Corp. CEO had just received confirmation from his chief financial officer, Katsumi Ihara, of what many around headquarte...
FORTUNE's Brent Schlender talked with Howard Stringer in New York City shortly after he was named Sony's CEO. Edited excerpts:
CNNMoney: Sony goes Britishupdated: Tue Mar 08 2005 10:46:00
Sony's hiring of a Brit to try and turn the group around may be a shock.
CNNMoney: Dow looks toward 11Kupdated: Mon Mar 07 2005 05:39:00
Investors start the week looking to see if a retreat in oil prices and some new mergers can help lift stocks and take Dow across the 11,000 mark, a level it has not seen since July 2001.
When Howard Stringer was appointed head of Sony's U.S. operations in the spring of 1997, the prevailing wisdom was that he'd accepted a suicide mission. Eight years had passed since Sony bought Col...
You could argue that Sony blew it by sitting out the entertainment industry consolidation of the 1990s. Slow-moving, cautious, and traumatized by its early failures in Hollywood, the Japanese elect...
Howard Stringer is putting the best face on things. It's April, and he's onstage at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, trying to convince a crowd of media moguls and Wall Street analysts that the just-...
HE HAS BEEN LAMPOONED, vilified, and skewered for pulling apart CBS and turning television's Tiffany network into costume jewelry. For Larry Tisch, heading CBS must sometimes seem like a long run t...
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