Sony

Sony Corporation
Company type	Public
Traded as	TYO: 6758 ; NYSE: SNE
ISIN	JP3435000009
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)
Operating income	US $2.448 billion (2013)
Net income	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.net

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).