Huge mess

Having been in the job for little over a week, new CEO of Sony Corporation Kazuo Hirai has been searching for a way to fix huge financial woes - the company has faced significant financial loss four years in a row as previously reported¹. According to the Wall Street Journal, Hirai is set to announce a large restructuring plan which is reported to include the loss of 10,000 jobs, or 6% of the global workforce. Read on

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1. /sblog/2472/sony-corporation-heads-to-29-billion-annual-loss-hirai-to-take-over-as-ceo videogam.in ↩

Sources

• Wall Street Journal

Over the weekend Gawker Media servers were hacked by 'Gnosis'. Nearly 1.25 million accounts including more than 500,000 user e-mails and 185,000 passwords were posted on The Pirate Bay¹. This resulted in security breaches for a number of sites; Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot account leaks have all occurred². Gawker boss Nick Denton is expected to meet with FBI investigators and urges users to change their passwords³. Read on

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1. Slate ↩

2. lifehacker ↩

3. news.com.au ↩

Square Enix have issued another communication in order to lessen the damage being done by a variety of issues in their MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.

Producer Hiromichi Tanaka is resigning as producer:

First of all, I would like to apologise for our inability to fully satisfy our users with the initial release of Final Fantasy XIV. I take full responsibility for the game's current situation, and have therefore made the decision to step down from my role as producer.¹

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1. Digital Spy ↩