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Sony played a major role in the development of Japan as a powerful exporter during the late 20th century. [9] From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, it aggressively expanded into a variety of businesses, from film (Sony Pictures Entertainment) and insurance to banking to internet service providing and gaming (Sony Interactive Entertainment). [9]
Sony Group Corporation [c] (formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. [d] and Sony Corporation [e]) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. [6] The Sony Group comprises entities such as Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Sony Entertainment (including Sony Pictures and Sony Music Group), Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Financial Group, and others.
mora (モーラ, mōra) is an online music and video store for the Japanese market operated by Sony Music Solutions, a part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ). [1] It is integrated into the Japanese version of Sony's Music Center for PC software, and was also integrated into its predecessors such as SonicStage.
A customer checks out a Sony Corp. digital camcorder in an electronics store in Tokyo, Japan, in July 2006. ... December 3 this year marked the 30th anniversary of the first release of Japan's ...
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony is the 1986 autobiography of Akio Morita, co-founder and former chairman of Sony Corporation, written with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura. The book narrates the story of Morita's early life, the Sony Corporation's formation in the aftermath of Japan's brutal defeat in World War II and its subsequent ...
On this day 98 years ago, Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE: SNE), was born. Where Was The Market? The S&P 500 was trading at 13.40 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 157.20.
In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American depositary receipts (ADRs). In March 1968, Morita set up a joint venture in Japan between Sony and CBS Records, with him as president, to manufacture "software" for Sony's hardware. [9]
Aiwa marketed Japan's first boombox, the TPR-101, in 1968, as well as the first cassette deck, TP-1009. In 1980, Aiwa created the world's first personal stereo recorder, TP-S30 (marketed as CassetteBoy in Japan). Despite Sony being the major shareholder, healthy competition between the two brands was believed to be profitable. [13]