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Men pass in front of huge monitor displaying "SONY" logo at Sony building in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Sony's red ink widened in the most recent quarter as it struggled for a turnaround under Chief Executive Howard Stringer, the first foreigner to head the Japanese electronics and entertainment company. Sony Corp., which brought the world the Walkman portable player and PlayStation 2 video-game machine, reported a 66.5 billion yen (US$578 million; euro466 million) loss Thursday, April 27, 2006, for the January-March quarter, worse than the 56.5 billion yen it lost the same period the previous year. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)