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Sony was founded on may 7th 1946 by Masaru Ibuka as a radio repair shop
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in 1950 sony created Japans first tape recorder called the type-g
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in january 1958 the company changed its name to sony
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in 1960 akio morita founded sony corporation of america
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in 1975 Sony launched the beta max video cassette recording format.
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in 1979 Sony began a life insurance company as one of its peripheral businesses
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In 1983, Sony introduced the world to the Compact Disc (CD)
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n 1984, Sony launched the Disc man series which was an expansion of the Walkman brand to portable CD products
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In 1985, Sony launched its Handycam products and the Video8 format
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In 1987, Sony launched the 4 mm DAT (Digital Audio Tape) as a new digital audio type standard
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In 1988, Ohga purchased CBS Records
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In 1989 Ohga purchased Columbia Pictures. In the same year Norio Ohga was made CEO of the company
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In 1991, after a series of acquisitions and friendly take-overs, Sony Pictures Entertainment was founded on August 7th
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n November 16th, 1993, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) was established in Tokyo, Japan. It is responsible for the line of PlayStation consoles, which grew out of a failed partnership with Nintendo
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In 1994, Sony Computer Entertainment launched the first PlayStation
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In 1995, Sony purchased a 50% stake in ATV Music Publishing, which at the time was the second-largest publishing company in the world. Notably, the company owns much of the publishing rights to the catalogue of The Beatles
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In 1998, Sony launched their Memory Stick format, flash memory cards for use in Sony lines of digital cameras and portable music players
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In 2000, the PlayStation 2 was released, which has since become the most successful video game console of all time, selling over 150 million units as of 2011
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In 2004, Sony entered into a joint venture with Bertelsmann AG, merging Sony Music Entertainment with Bertelsmann AG to form Sony BMG
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In 2006, Sony Computer Entertainment released the PlayStation 3. It was the first console to use the Blu-Ray disc format
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in 2008, Sony bought out Bertelsmann’s share in the company and formed a new Sony Music Entertainment
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In 2009, in a bid to increase cooperation between business units, and provide a unified brand for its global operations, Sony introduced a slogan known as make.believe
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In 2012, Kazuo Hirai was promoted to president and CEO replacing Sir Howard Stringer. Shortly after Hirai outlined his company-wide initiative named One Sony to revive Sony from its financial losses and bureaucratic management structure, which had been difficult for Stringer to accomplish
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On November 15th, 2013, Sony Computer Entertainment released the PlayStation 4 in North America
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on November 12th 2020 sony released the most resent edition to the PlayStation series the PS5
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