Sony has confirmed that it will lose up to a quarter of its profit this year as it pays for a recall of six million potentially explosive notebook batteries
Sony currently estimates the cost of the battery recall at between $175m and $265m

Sony burns quarter of year's profit in battery recall

Six million batteries at risk will cost up to $265m to replace

Written by Simon Burns in Taipei

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