{"id":656959,"date":"2013-05-09T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=498922"},"modified":"2013-05-09T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:50:03","slug":"sony-posts-first-full-year-profit-in-five-years-sees-smartphone-sales-rising-27-in-fy2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656959","title":{"rendered":"Sony posts first full-year profit in five years, sees smartphone sales rising 27% in FY2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/sony-earnings-2013-profit\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/sony-sign-55.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sony Earnings 2013\" title=\"Sony Earnings 2013\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sony on Thursday posted its full-year financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 2013. The struggling Japan-based consumer electronics giant managed to eke out its first full-year profit in five years, posting net income of 43 billion yen, or approximately $458 million for fiscal 2012. Smartphone sales into channels came in at 33 million units while LCD TV sales fell 38% to 13.5 million units. Combined sales of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/playstation-3\">PlayStation 3<\/a> and PlayStation 2 fell to 16.5 million units in fiscal 2013, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sony\">Sony<\/a> shipped a total of 7 million handheld <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/vita\">Vita<\/a> consoles. In fiscal 2013, Sony expects TV sales to rebound to 16 million units while smartphone shipments grow 27% to 42 million handsets.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/o6sN1HED338\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony on Thursday posted its full-year financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 2013. The struggling Japan-based consumer electronics giant managed to eke out its first full-year profit in five years, posting net income of 43 billion yen, or approximately $458 million for fiscal 2012. Smartphone sales into channels came in at 33 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}