Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered at the Sony City building in Minato, Tokyo, with businesses spanning video games, music, film and television, consumer electronics, imaging and sensing, semiconductors and financial services. It was founded in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita and took the Sony name in 1958. Its products include the TR-55 transistor radio, the Trinitron television, the Walkman and the PlayStation consoles, and it helped commercialize the CD, DVD and Blu-ray. Sony bought CBS Records in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1989, making it one of the major record labels and film studios, and it entered home video games with the PlayStation in 1994. In 2021 it adopted the Sony Group Corporation name in a move to a holding-company structure, and it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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headquartered at the Sony City building in Minato, Tokyo
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Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered at the Sony City building in Minato, Tokyo.
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Sony is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
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Sony was founded in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita.
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headquartered at the Sony City building in Minato, Tokyo
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In 1994, the company entered the home video game console market with the launch of the PlayStation
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Sony acquired CBS Records in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1989
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businesses spanning video games, music, film and television
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