{"id":8217,"date":"2011-03-11T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8217"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:19:05","slug":"kaz-hirai-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/kaz-hirai-promoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaz Hirai Promoted at Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12286\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12286\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kaz-Hirai-S.jpg\" alt=\"Kaz Hirai.\" width=\"296\" height=\"350\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaz Hirai.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCH 11, 2011 \u2022 In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Corp. chief executive Howard Stringer said the promotion of Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai to oversee the consumer electronics division makes Hirai the leading candidate to replace Stringer some day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Kaz Hirai started in the music business but came on with Sony Computer Entertainment America right around the 1995 launch.\u00a0 As head of SCEA he oversaw the hugely successful first two PlayStation systems.\u00a0 Shortly after the launch of the PlayStation 3 he took over for Ken Kutaragi as the head of all Sony Computer Entertainment.\u00a0 Hirai is significantly more focused on the entertainment side of the business, where the consumer electronics division has often been more focused on pushing technology.\u00a0 Thus putting Hirai as head of consumer electronics is a big sign that Sony realizes content is winning over hardware.\u00a0 We view this as a strong positive for Sony and feel that Sony is now getting itself on stronger strategic grounds.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 11, 2011 \u2022 In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Corp. chief executive Howard Stringer said the promotion of Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai to oversee the consumer electronics division makes Hirai the leading candidate to replace Stringer some day. Impact: Kaz Hirai started in the music business but came on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[313,78,74],"tags":[129,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions\/16658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}