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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications signed an exclusive four year sponsorship agreement with Maria Sharapova, to become the company’s first global brand ambassador. She will endorse the brand globally and Sony Ericsson will hopefully have sales rise. Maria will also be working with Sony Ericsson’s design team on a range of products and accessories.

SCi Entertainment and subsidiary Eidos revealed that over 1 million copies of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men were sold since its mid-November launch. Kane and Lynch’s sales-to-date for the comparable period have exceeded those of 2006’s Hitman Blood Money. Well it is really surprising that even after receiving large amount of negative reviews, Kane and Lynch managed to sell over 1million copies.
Amazon set a sales record in tech products this holiday season by selling 17 Wiis a second! Reggie-Fils said that Wiis were sold out faster than a blink of an eye. The Wii holds the U.S. and world lead for top selling current generation console. Wii seems to be really dominating over console sales this holiday season.
E65 price was slashed by 15% this week. Analysts said the price cut was deeper than usual. This move is mainly because of Christmas coming ahead. The E65 sales were great in the second quarter, in fact it was one of the top three products for the firm sold.
The theme of dollar weakness quickly returned to the market as the US currency reversed virtually all of the strong gains enjoyed in the wake of robust US jobs data this afternoon.
The figures showed the US economy created 110,000 jobs in September, in line with expectations. The real surprise, however, came in the extremely sharp upward revision to August’s data from a fall of 4,000 to a rise of 89,000.

According to a game magazine publisher, Sony Corp sold about 250,000 units of the new version of the PlayStation Portable in Japan in just four days since its launch. which is almost close to old PSP’s 2months sale in July and August. The new model is being sold for just 19,800 yen and 16,800 for the DS lite.

Apple unveiled the all new iPod with a touch screen that can browse the Internet wirelessly. Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs showed off an iPod nano with a video screen as well.