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    History. Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker in the late 1940s. [18] Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, [19] a department store building in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo.

  2. Founding. In September 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in the bomb-damaged Shirokiya department store building in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo.

  3. History. In 1946, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, The predecessor of Sony Group Corporation) started as a small company with capital of just 190,000 yen and approximately 20 employees. Founder Masaru Ibuka said the purpose of setting up the company was to "establish an ideal factory.

  4. 4 days ago · The failure of Betamax had taught Sony a lesson; the format standard for CDs (and later digital videodiscs [DVDs]) was agreed upon by a wide range of companies in Japan, Europe, and North America. The next year Sony introduced the first camcorder.

  5. Sony's big break came in 1955 with the release of Japan’s first transistor radio, the Sony TR-55. This innovation was particularly notable because Sony did not invent the transistor—Bell Labs in the United States did. But Sony was one of the first companies to recognize the commercial potential of the technology.

  6. Early History of Sony. early factory Morita and Ibuka founded the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. (the predecessor of Sony) in 1946 in a bombed out Tokyo department store building with an investment of less that $500. In the early years the company had 20 employees.

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  8. Company History: The Sony Corporation is one of the best-known names in consumer electronics. Since it was established shortly after World War II, Sony has introduced a stream of revolutionary products, including the transistor radio, the Trinitron television, the Betamax VCR, and the Walkman portable cassette player.

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