Sony Corp. said Thursday it plans to cut some 15 percent of its mobile phone business’s workforce, or about 1,000 jobs, to reduce costs and accelerate its push into the growing smartphone market.
The job cut comes after Sony took full control of its mobile phone joint venture with Sweden’s Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson earlier this year.
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