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| Traded as | TYO: 6758 NYSE: SNE |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | 7 May 1946 (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 |
| Revenue |  US $72.349 billion (2013) |
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| US $458 million (2013) | |
| Total assets | US $151.131 billion (2013) |
| Total equity | US $28.523 billion (2013) |
Number of employees | 146,300 (2013) |
| Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries |
| Website | www |
Sony is a technology company, based in Japan, which makes many electric products. 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.
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