Sony plans to layoff workers

Stockholm : Sweden | Aug 23, 2012 at 4:32 AM PDT

Source: Times of Oman

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Sony Corp is considering hundreds of layoffs at a mobile phone plant in Sweden, a newspaper reported yesterday, in what would be one of the first major strategic decisions by the Japanese company on its former joint venture with Ericsson. Sony Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai is under pressure to... FULL ARTICLE AT Times of Oman

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