{"id":4654,"date":"2008-07-29T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-29T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T21:29:00","slug":"sony-first-quarter-profits-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/4654-sony-first-quarter-profits-slide.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony first-quarter profits slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electronics icon said it was hit by increasing price competition and losses at mobile telephone operator Sony Ericsson.<\/p>\n<p>Net profits fell 47.4% to 34.98 billion yen (%326 million) in the three months to June as revenue edged up 0.1 percent to 1.98 trillion yen, a company statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It cut its forecast for net earnings for the full fiscal year to next March to 240 billion yen from a previous projection of 290 billion yen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#039;s Sony Corp. said on Tuesday its net earnings almost halved in the fiscal first quarter from a year earlier and issued a profit warning as business conditions worsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}