Sony Cuts PlayStation Price in Japan to Maintain Momentum
Sony Corp. is cutting the Japanese price of its PlayStation 4 console by about 13 percent as the company tries to maintain a sales lead through the year-end holiday shopping …
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SoftBank’s Slide Gives Son $13 Billion Reason to Consider Buyout
Months after Masayoshi Son is said to have shelved a plan for a management buyout of SoftBank Group Corp., there are still 13 billion reasons to take the company private. …
Read MoreToyota Hires Top U.S. Military Robotics Engineer for AI Push
Toyota Motor Corp. has hired Gill Pratt, the U.S. military’s top robotics engineer, as part of a $50 million investment in artificial-intelligence research designed to reduce highway deaths and injuries. …
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Sony to Offer Commercial Drone Services Starting 2016
Sony Corp. plans to offer commercial drone services targeting the construction, logistics and agriculture industries from the first half of next year. The company’s Aerosense Inc. venture is making automated …
Read MoreNetflix Considering Content Partnership With SoftBank in Japan
Netflix Inc. and SoftBank Group are considering a content partnership for the video streaming service set to start in Japan on Sept. 2. SoftBank will also sell Netflix subscriptions in …
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Revealed: Secret Strategies of the World’s Most Lucrative Apps
A few months ago, Yoshiki Watabe, a producer at Japan’s DeNA Co., was looking to draw attention for the company’s hit mobile game. He introduced a spiky-haired hero armed with …
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Four Lessons Obama Should Learn From Merkel’s Energy Revolution
Germany’s “Energiewende” is managing the biggest transformation away from fossil fuels and nuclear power and toward renewables of any advanced economy. It hasn’t all gone smoothly. “The Energiewende has a …
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Solar Plane’s Harrowing 120-Hour Flight Begins
Solar Impulse, a plane powered entirely by the sun, has departed on a harrowing five-day journey over the Pacific Ocean. It’s a one-way ticket from Japan to Hawaii. There’s no …
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Hackers Exposed Government Data in Breach of Telstra’s Pacnet
A Telstra employee checks the telephone and broadband mainframe system at an exchange center in Melbourne. Photographer: Luis Enrique Ascui/Bloomberg
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