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Console Wars Heat Up With PlayStation 5 Price And Games Reveal
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 5:21pm | 709Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) shared a look at its upcoming PlayStation 5 console and games with a presentation Wednesday. Console Wars: Sony unveiled its PlayStation 5 will cost $499.99 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will cost $399.99. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) had previously...
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Fintech Focus For August 13, 2020
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 4:20pm | 1461Daily Perspective: Accept my money, or die. - Kublai Khan Fintech Movers: I wouldn't be surprised to see exchanges charging for [crypto] data ... like exchanges used to not charge for data in U.S. equities. - Ronan Ryan Huntington selects BillGo as partner. Cash App tests new borrowing tech....
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Fintech Focus For July 10, 2020
Friday, July 10, 2020 - 7:57am | 1814Daily Perspective: The market is not the economy. - Mike Loewengart Fintech Movers: The digital lending platform market was estimated at $4 billion in 2018. This number is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of over 20% in the next 5 years, putting it at an estimated $17 billion by...
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Sony Analyst Expects 'Strong Software' Announcements At PlayStation 5 Event
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 1:39pm | 554Sony Interactive Software's (NYSE: SNE) rescheduled event "The Future of Gaming" is Thursday, and viewers are expecting to see announcements detailing the console's lineup of games. Sony is known for its extensive line of first-party exclusive titles, and it's expected that a...
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Sony Fined $2.4M In Australia Over PlayStation Refund Policy
Sunday, June 7, 2020 - 3:26pm | 293Sony Interactive Entertainment (NYSE: SNE) Network Europe has reportedly been fined AU$3.5 million ($2.4 million) by an Australian court after "refusing to refund customers" who believed they purchased faulty digital products. Four consumers spoke out against the company after Sony...
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'Modern Warfare' And 'Warzone' Loading Screens Replaced With Black Lives Matter Message
Friday, June 5, 2020 - 2:02pm | 286Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) has been responsive to the protests occurring nationwide. Seasonal content for "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare," "Call of Duty: Warzone," and "Call of Duty: Mobile" have all been delayed, with the company stating that "now is not...
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Sony Slows PlayStation Download Speeds To Preserve Bandwidth
Friday, March 27, 2020 - 2:33pm | 490Sony Interactive Entertainment (NYSE: SNE) said Friday that PlayStation download speeds will be slowed in the United States. This news comes days after Sony revealed reduced download speeds in Europe. Due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, global bandwidth usage is higher than usual. Sony said...
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Sony Not Attending E3 Second Year In A Row As It Prepares For PlayStation 5 Launch
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 4:40am | 389Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corp (OTC: SNEJF), is skipping the E3 conference for the second year in a row. What Happened Sony has decided not to participate in the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a premier trade event for the video game industry, this year as...
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Sony To Develop New Vision Sensor For Self-Driving Vehicles
Friday, January 3, 2020 - 7:51am | 337Sony Corp (OTC: SNEJF) is working on developing a new, more affordable lidar vision-sensing technology for self-driving cars, the Financial Times reports. What Happened In an attempt to dominate the market for image sensors in the nascent autonomous-vehicles industry, Sony is developing a...
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Chip Market Could Rebound In 2020: Nintendo And Apple Chip Maker
Friday, January 3, 2020 - 7:04am | 388Taiwan-based memory chip maker Macronix International Co., Ltd. is bullish on the memory chip market in 2020, according to Nikkei Asian Review. What Happened After a rough 2019, the memory chip market could see a steady recovery in demand and a rebound in memory chip...
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Benzinga's Weekly Bulls & Bears: Amazon, Apple, GE, Twitter And More
Sunday, January 28, 2018 - 5:31pm | 838Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls featured the e-commerce leader and a social media giant. Bearish calls included the iPhone maker and a struggling industrial giant. With earnings reporting season in full swing, and as the World...
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The Year Of The Breach: A Guide To The Major Hacks Of 2017
Saturday, December 2, 2017 - 9:52am | 1097Uber, which is working to vindicate itself under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi following a string of scandals, faced a setback after it was revealed by Bloomberg in a Nov. 21 report that the company was a victim of a hacking incident in October 2016 — and chose to cover it up by paying $100,000...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Tesla, Sony, PayPal And More
Sunday, November 12, 2017 - 10:13am | 592This weekend's Barron's cover story takes a look at the prospects for big car makers as the industry changes. Other featured articles discuss a consumer-electronics giant that is out of the doghouse and why consumer staples stocks are under pressure. The best bets in telecoms and...
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'We Just Move Quick': The Story Of Algomus, A Startup That's Streamlining Big Data With AI
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 8:13am | 1079It’s been less than a year since the startup Algomus launched its collaborative intelligence platform Algo, and the company has taken on clients ranging from Hollywood studios to appliance manufacturers, many of which are Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) suppliers. The 2.0 version of Algo...
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Retro Tech Is Hot: Polaroid, Old Nintendo, The iPod And Even A CGI Colonel Sanders Make Comebacks
Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 4:21pm | 794Retro tech is back, if it paradoxically ever went away. For example: Sales of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iPod shot up 929 percent on Australia’s eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY) in the week after the opening there of the movie “Baby Driver,” which featured the MP3 player prominently....