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27/04/2011

Mickey Clark and Dominic Laurie. Sony warns of stolen PlayStation data, Amazon's UK MD on the increasingly competitive e-reader war, and an RBS economist previews the GDP figures.

News and views from the business world with Mickey Clark and Dominic Laurie.

Sony has warned around 77 million users of their online PlayStation network, that their personal information - including credit card details - may have been stolen by a hacker. Sony said the hack started happening on 17th April. We speak to David Abrams, he runs a gaming website in Tokyo, and publishes the C-A-Gcast, a podcast about console games.

How is Amazon doing in the increasingly competitive e-reader war? The online retailer, which said at the start of the year that ebook sales have already overtaken paperback sales in the US, reported a 32.8% decline in first-quarter profits overnight. Christopher North, Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk joins us.

The Chancellor George Osborne says the economy is in "roughly the right place" ahead of this morning's eagerly awaited first quarter GDP results. We are joined by Ross Walker is UK Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland.

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