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A blockbuster sci-fi movie which caricatures Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals and a Sony PlayStation advert which implies they are fraudsters have infuriated a government battling to improve the country's image.

Sony has purchased the film rights to playwright Lucy Prebble's Enron, currently being staged in a sold-out run at London's Royal Court Theater. A Broadway move is being planned for April.

Goldman Sachs said it agreed to sell part of its stake in Japan's Sanyo Electric Co Ltd into a planned tender offer by Panasonic Corp, locking in 59 billion yen ($648 million) in profit.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group is in final negotiations to acquire the Woody Harrelson-starring film Defendor, which received its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Singer Whitney Houston said in an interview aired on Tuesday that she is drug-free as she embarks on a career comeback, and that her faith guides her through her ongoing fight to stay clean.

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As it expands its circle of producers, Sony Pictures Animation has struck a multiyear, first-look deal with Fred Seibert and his Frederator Studios to develop animated features.

Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Breslin have been cast in the indie drama Janie Jones, along with Frank Whaley, Brittany Snow, Peter Stormare and Joel David Moore.

Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States fell 16 percent in August to $908.7 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, the sixth consecutive monthly decline.

Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States fell 16 percent in August to $908.7 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, the sixth consecutive monthly decline.

Japanese talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Co Ltd plans to go private in a 52.7 billion yen ($571 million) buyout led by a consortium of about 20 firms, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Toshiba Corp is in talks with Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor and Globalfoundries Inc about outsourcing production of some of its next-generation system chips to help cut costs, two company sources said.

Sony's Walkman digital music player outsold the Apple iPod in Japan last week - the first that has happened in more than four years, according to Bloomberg, citing data from Tokyo-based research firm BCN.

Sony Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent SA and a private equity arm of JP Morgan are among the candidates shortlisted to buy Nortel Networks Corp's stake in LG-Nortel, media reported on Wednesday.

Sony Corp plans to launch 3D TVs next year in a move to spur sales amid slowing growth in flat TV demand, the Financial Times said.

Sony Corp said it would sell an LCD TV assembly plant in Mexico to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry in a bid to cut costs by contracting out production and turn around its loss-making TV operations.

Google Inc is shipping its Chrome browser with Sony Corp PCs, sealing the Internet company's first such deal since it introduced the Web browser last year to compete with Microsoft.

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LOS ANGELES - Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years, Whitney Houston sings on what is, in fact, her latest comeback album.

Billionaire Carlos Slim and technology supplier Qualcomm Inc are teaming up with the launch in Mexico of a low-cost video game console designed for consumers in developing countries.

Sony Corp unveiled its first wireless electronic reader, challenging Amazon.com Inc's momentum in the growing digital book market.

Sony Corp on Tuesday launched its first wireless electronic reader, a move to challenge Amazon.com Inc's recent dominance of the growing digital book market.

The studio behind the Michael Jackson film This Is It on Thursday advanced its release by two days to October 28, anticipating huge demand for the movie of his final performance rehearsals just days before his death.

Record label SyCo and music trade body IFPI have called in the police to help them hunt down computer hackers who leaked a track by Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake on the Internet.

Sony Corp will launch a slimmer, cheaper version of its PlayStation 3 game console next month, hoping to jumpstart sales and win back market share from rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.

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Sony Corp will launch a slimmer, cheaper version of its PlayStation 3 game console next month, hoping to jumpstart sales and win back market share from rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.

Sony confirmed on Tuesday that it will be dropping the price on its PlayStation 3 console.

Sony Corp will launch a cheaper version of its PlayStation 3 game console and plans to cut prices on existing models effective August 19 in Europe and the United States to bolster sales and take aim at rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.