Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

On May 7, 1946, Morita and Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha ( Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the forerunner of Sony Corporation ) with about 20 employees and initial capital of ¥ 190, 000.

Morita was an advocate for all the products made by the Sony Corporation.

In 1960, the Sony Corporation of America ( SONAM, currently abbreviated as SCA ) was established in the United States.

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 ), which are traded over-the-counter.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

Also in honor of Bardeen, Sony Corporation endowed a $ 53 million John Bardeen professorial chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, beginning in 1990.

The RCA trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which licenses the name to other companies like Audiovox and TCL Corporation for products descended from that common ancestor.

Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation ( Sony Electronics in the U. S .), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile Communications ( formerly Sony Ericsson ), and Sony Financial.

The group consists of Sony Corporation ( holding and electronics ), Sony Computer Entertainment ( game ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( motion pictures ), Sony Music Entertainment ( music ), Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( music publishing ), Sony Financial Holdings ( financial services ) and others.

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

A CD-R ( Compact Disc-Recordable ) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony.

The first system implementing machine improvisation by means of Markov models and style modeling techniques is the Continuator, developed by François Pachet at Sony CSL Paris in 2002.

One original researcher in the field is Luc Steels, head of the research units of Sony CSL in Paris and the AI Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

At far left and far right, outside the perforations, is the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal.

A similar series, SingStar, published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, is particularly popular in the European and Australasian markets.

In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.

* 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering ( later renamed Sony ) is founded with around 20 employees.

The only clear-set rule is that ESRB AO-rated games will not be licensed on Nintendo consoles in North America, a practice which is also enforced by Sony and Microsoft, its two greatest competitors in the present market.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

This new Sony Centre, designed by Helmut Jahn, is an eye-catching monolith of glass and steel featuring an enormous tent-like conical roof, its shape reportedly inspired by Mount Fuji in Japan, covering an elliptical central public space up to 102 metres across, and thus differing substantially from Hilmer & Sattler's original plan for the site.

In the left foreground is Leipziger Platz, while in the right foreground are parts of the Sony and Beisheim Centers.

Whilst the amounts involved have not been publicly disclosed, it is believed that neither Daimler nor Sony recouped all of their original investments ( what Daimler managed to get was reportedly well short ).

The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series.

A later variation of this logo was revived by BMG after it bought RCA Records from GE, and is still used by Sony Music Entertainment | Sony Music today.

* One Source-Formerly CLIÉ Source, One Source is a CLIÉ enthusiast site which changed its name when Sony ended the CLIÉ line.

It is still the more popular site that still talks about the Sony CLIÉ line of products through its forums.

(, ), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics products for the consumer and professional markets.

Later, higher scale integration electronics was applied ( mainly by Sony ), simplifying and even removing the intermediate opticals, up to a point to reduce the size of video cameras for domestic use until convert them in handy and full camcorders.

Other big industrial companies include US Steel ( metallurgy ), Slovnaft ( oil industry ), Samsung Electronics ( electronics ), Sony ( electronics ), Mondi Business Paper ( paper ), Hydro Aluminium ( aluminum production ), and Whirlpool Corporation.

It has grown to become one of the largest Japanese electronics producers, alongside Sony, Toshiba and Canon.

The Columbia Pictures empire was sold on September 28, 1989 to electronics giant Sony for the amount of $ 3. 4 billion, one of several Japanese firms then buying American properties.

Also, many other major electronics manufacturers such as Sony and LG have plants there.

SCMS was created as a compromise between electronics manufacturers, mainly Sony and Phillips, who wanted to make DAT machines available in the United States, and the RIAA, which had previously hampered the availability of DAT machines in the US with the threat of lawsuits.

Although officially an affiliated company of consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation, which owns 50. 6 percent of the company, Aiwa prides itself on its independent operation and competes head on with Sony in several product categories.

In January 2003, Sony announced the rebranding and relaunch of Aiwa as a " youth focused, PC-centric " electronics brand.

Sony was the only electronics manufacturer for this format, and editing software was proprietary to Sony and only available on Microsoft Windows ; however, open source programmers did manage to create capture software for Linux.

Although Kutaragi's leadership of consumer electronics was not successful, analysts also suspect that outgoing Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei had set up Kutaragi to fail, given that both men had a cool working relationship.

Despite the availability of AMAX receivers from companies like Sony, General Electric, Denon, and AMAX-certified car radios from the domestic and Japanese automakers, most electronics manufacturers did not wish to implement the more costly AMAX tuner ( radio ) design in their radios, so most AM radios today remain in mono with limited fidelity.

A number of electronics companies such as Lexicon, Marantz, Mark Levinson, Onkyo, Panasonic, Pioneer, and Sony ( both its Computer Entertainment and Electronics divisions ) issued statements warning consumers about possible problems with playing DualDisc titles on their equipment.

Montgomery Ward greatly expanded their electronics presence by shifting from a predominantly private label mix to an assortment dominated by Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC, and other national brands.