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Commentary / Japan Feb 14, 2015

Is Sony coming back as a competitive icon?

by William Pesek

If Sony's just-posted quarterly profits — the best in seven years — signal the revival of the Japanese icon, then the transformation might have begun last April, when Kenichiro Yoshida was promoted to chief financial officer.

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