Sony - About the Company...

Approximately, Sony has about ninety-five companies. The major products that Sony sell are:

• Audio
  Home audio, portable audio, etc.
• Video
  Video cameras, digital cameras, DVD-video players/recorders, and Digital- broadcasting recording systems.
• Televisions
  LCD televisions, projection televisions, CRT-based televisions etc.
• Information and Communications
  PC, printer system, broadcast professional use audio/video/monitors and other professional-use equipment.
• Semiconductors
  LCD, CCD and other semiconductors.
• Electronic Components
  Optical pickups, batteries, audio/video/data recording media, and data recording systems.

Other products that Sony sell are: Motion picture, Music, Online business, Sony Playstation. Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo and Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding $88.7 billion. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of all of the above in the market. Sony was founded on May 7, 1946.

In 1945, after World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out building in Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his colleague Akio Morita and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. The company built Japan's first tape recorder called the Type-G. In the early 1950s, Ibuka traveled in the United States and heard about Bell Labs' invention of the transistor. He convinced Bell to license the transistor technology to his Japanese company. While most American companies were researching the transistor for its military applications, Ibuka looked to apply it to communications. Although the American companies Regency and Texas Instruments built the first transistor radios, it was Ibuka's company that made them commercially successful for the first time.

Sony was one of the first companies to create a portable transistor radio, this produced worldwide commercial success. It was not the first, but it was most successful. This success with the transistor radio made sure that Sony was dominant in the electronic field of business. Sony has diversified by developing on the products they have already produced, and modernizing those products over the years to advertise something the public will want to have in their home. Over the years, Sony has spread into many countries through the products they have created.
Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation, being one of the big record companies. According to Variety Sony BMG will be re-branded into Sony Music Entertainment. In 1988, the Sony Corporation of America acquired CBS Records for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label Sony Music Entertainment in 1991. Sony re-introduced the Columbia label after it bought the international rights of the label from EMI. Epic Records is the other major branch of Sony Music. The only country where Sony does not have rights to the Columbia name is Japan, where the name is controlled by Columbia Music Entertainment.

Sony Pictures Television, is an American television production/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. SPT was previously known as Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Television, TriStar Television and Columbia TriStar Television. The name was changed to reflect the Sony brand in 2002. From 2005 until May 31, 2006, SPT also distributed MGM's TV shows and movie library (due in part to the Sony-led consortium's purchase of MGM). In 2006, SPT joined forces with Program Partners to handle ad-sales and distribution rights to foreign television series in the U.S., mostly shows produced in Canada. In Summer 2007, the company introduced The Minisode Network; a digital channel for MySpace airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes.