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Company type | Public |
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TYO: 6758 NYSE: SNE | |
ISIN | JP3435000009 ![]() |
Industry | Conglomerate |
Founded | 7 May 1946[1] (as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo) 1958 (as Sony) |
Founder | Masaru Ibuka Akio Morita |
Headquarters | Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Osamu Nagayama (Chairman of the Board) Kazuo Hirai (President & CEO) |
Products | Consumer electronics Semiconductors Video games Media/Entertainment Computer hardware Telecom equipment |
Services | Financial services, insurance, banking, credit finance and advertising agency |
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Number of employees | 146,300 (2013)[2] |
Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries |
Website | www |
Sony is a technology company, based in Japan, which makes many electric products.[3] Among its most popular products is the video game console PlayStation, which was followed by PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and now the PlayStation 5. They also sold the Walkman invented by Andreas Pavel - a small music audio cassette player that could fit in one’s pocket - they later made Walkman systems that could play CDs, MiniDiscs or MP3s instead of tapes, and they often could receive radio too.
The company also makes music players, televisions, headsets, mobile phones (Sony Ericsson) and computers (named Sony Vaio), and game players (PlayStation).
It owns the American movie studios, Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, through Sony Pictures.
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