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Sony Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the development, design, manufacture, and sale of electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer and industrial markets worldwide. It operates in six segments: Electronics, Game, Music, Picture, Financial Services, and Other. Electronics segment offers various electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer and professional markets. Game segment provides home use entertainment hardware and related software, including PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 hardware, and related software. Music segment offers CDs, MDs, DVDs, Super Audio CDs, and prerecorded audio and video software in various commercial and electronic formats and in all musical genres. Pictures segment provides image-based software, including film, video, television, and digital entertainment technologies. Financial Services segment comprises insurance operations, leasing and credit financing business, and Internet-based banking business. Other segment includes an in-house oriented information system service business, an advertising agency business, Internet-related service business, and an integrated circuit card business. Additionally, the company provides repair and servicing functions through its service centers, factories, authorized independent service centers, authorized servicing dealers, and its subsidiaries. The company was established in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and later changed its name to Sony Corporation in 1958. Sony is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. |
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