Sony Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, design, manufacture, and sale of electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer and industrial markets in Japan, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company’s products include audio and video equipment, liquid crystal display televisions, personal computers, monitors, semiconductors, components, mobile phones, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Disc. It develops, produces, manufactures, markets, and distributes home-use game consoles and software, such as PlayStation2, PlayStation Portable, and PLAYSTATION 3 hardware and software. Sony also engages in the development, production, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and broadcasting of image-based software, including film, video, and television products. In addition, the company engages in motion picture, television, and home entertainment production, acquisition, and distribution; television broadcasting; digital content creation and distribution; new entertainment products, services, and technologies development; and studio facilities operations. Further, it engages in various financial service businesses, such as insurance, banking, and leasing and credit financing. Additionally, it engages in the development, production, manufacture, and distribution of recorded music, as well as operates a network service business, an animation production and marketing business, and an advertising agency business. The company also operates a domestic recorded music business that produces recorded music and music videos through contracts with various artists in various musical genres; music publishing business to own and acquire rights to musical compositions; an Internet-related service business; an in-house facilities management business; and an advertising agency business. The company was formerly known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha. Sony Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
$43.81 (06/29/08)
