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Sony Corp.

SNE is in the Technology Industry

Market Cap:$27.5B

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$70.5B

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The Sony Group is primarily focused on the Electronics (such as AV/IT products & components), Game (such as PlayStation), Entertainment (such as motion pictures and music), and Financial Services (such as insurance and banking) sectors. Not only do we represent a wide range of businesses, but we remain globally unique. Our aim is to fully leverage this uniqueness in aggressively carrying out our convergence strategy so that we can continue to emotionally touch and excite our customers.

Number of Employees 171,300

Contact Information

1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku

Shinagawa-ku

Tokyo 108-0075

www.sony.net

(81) 3 5448 2180

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing: 334310

Company News

Recent Events

California Gamer Subpoenas Bill Gates In RROD Suit

12/01/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story
NeoMedia Barcode Scanning Application to Be Pre-Loaded on Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones

12/01/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Inside the World's Most Advanced LCD Factory

12/01/09 - New Investment - View Story
Sony launches two world-first TransferJet chips

12/01/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Black Friday Even with Last Year ... Does Cyber Monday Still Exist?

11/30/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story
Jackson movie will have extra footage on DVD

11/30/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Reportlinker Adds Flat Panel Displays - An International Market Report

11/30/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Raimi has Panic attack

11/30/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Black Dynamite's Fear and Loathing

11/28/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Kraft: Give the gift of music

11/28/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Smarthome Kicks Off Holiday Shopping Season with Black Friday Four-Day Sale

11/28/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Sherlock Holmes Gave Downey, Jr. A Taste For Thrills

11/27/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Free-to-air networks unite on catch-up programs

11/26/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Everything You Should Know About Sony X Series

11/25/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Kaija

11/29/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Action Replay maker sues Microsoft for Xbox 360 'predatory technological barriers'

11/24/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story
Sony introduces new line of MP3 voice recorders

11/24/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Where are all the jobs?

11/23/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
New PS3 Firmware Adds Facebook Support

11/22/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Sezmi to Cablecos: We Will Destroy You

11/22/09 - New Venture Funded Investment - View Story

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Picking high-def partners.(Vivid Entertainment Group Inc. to release adult film on Blue-ray disc)

- 2007-01-29

By Marcy Magiera There's really nothing sexy about a format war, but you wouldn't have known it last week. Rival high-def DVD formats HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc got some of the most intense press of...

Tags: Blu-ray disc, disc, Sony Corp.
Little toll on Blu-ray.(Blu-ray optical discs)(Sony Playstation 3)(Blu-ray diodes)

- 2006-09-11

By Jennifer Netherby and George T. Chronis By Jennifer Netherby and George T. Chronis

Tags: Blu-ray disc, diode, disc, Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation 3
Sony Annnouncs Start of Full Services for Blu-ray Disc Production from HD Video Shooting to Disc Mass Production

- 2006-07-12

Tokyo, Japan, July 12, 2006 - JCN Newswire - As the Blu-ray Disc BD format gains wide acceptance, Sony forecasts a sharp increase in demand for High Definition HD video contents on BD. Sony is therefore introducing an integrated suite of services to support BD production from HD video...

Tags: Blu-ray disc, disc, Sony Corp., video
Sony stars Blu-ray lines.(production management)

- 2006-05-22

Sony DADC officially launched Blu-ray disc production in the U.S. last week with the ability to manufacture 750,000 single-layer BD discs a month, just ahead of the format's launch at the end of June. The company now has three Blu-ray replicat ...

Tags: Blu-Ray, Blu-ray disc, disc, Sony Corp.
What's in a codec? At 18MBs, Charlie's Angels eats up the better part of a 25GB Blu-ray Disc.(Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc is planning to encode Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle on a Blu-ray Disc)

- 2005-12-05

Sony Pictures caused a bit of a stir in the high-def world the other day when it announced the first full-length film to be authored and encoded on a Blu-ray Disc, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was compressed using MPEG-2, the same codec used fo ...

Tags: MPEG-2, codec, Blu-ray disc, Sony Corp., disc

Making a Franken-DVD: whether a comprise on disc specs can work this time is far from clear.(Column)

- 2005-10-24

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Sony lost out on the biggest royalties with the first DVD and doesn't want to make the same mistake a second time. * But a compromise could be more difficult this time around. ...

Tags: Blu-ray disc, disc, Sony Corp., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Just say what it is.(universal media disc format)

- 2005-08-15

Thank goodness someone stopped the madness and has begun using the jargon PSP when referring to movies produced on the so-called UMD format. Sony's billboards for Guess Who say "... on DVD Aug. 2, and for PSP." ...

Tags: Blu-ray disc, disc, DVD, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable
Sony to develop Blu-ray disc-based, small-sized optical pick-up. (Optoelectonics).

- 2002-09-01

Sony Corporation has developed a small-sized optical pickup module that supports the Blu-ray disc standard for second-generation recording and playback equipment and systems. Sony Corporation has developed a small-sized optical pickup module that supports the Blu-ray disc standard for second-generation recording and playback...

Tags: Blu-ray disc, disc, Sony Corp.