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Sony’s Fortunes Improve, From Rising Profit to a Return for Aibo

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Sony has made a strong recovery with shares up significantly in October 2017. Sony earned a profit of $1.79 billion in three months to Sept. 2017. This is four times what the profit was in the same quarter in 2016. After the sale of Vaio PC division and other divestment by Sony, the times are changing at Sony. Now even robot Aibo is back and looking at a brighter future. Sony made large gains from making some of the key parts in smartphones, such as image sensing circuits, which has helped makeup for the less profitable television business.


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