Sony Corporation

Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate from Japan, with the development of electronic products as its main business, and its business areas span consumer electronics, video games, finance, entertainment industry, semiconductors , smartphones, cameras, video cameras, stereos, etc.
The name “Sony” was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words: one was the Latin word “sonus”, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was “sonny”, a common slang term used in 1950s America to call a young boy. In 1950s Japan, “sonny boys” was a loan word in Japanese, which connoted smart and presentable young man, which Sony founders Akio Moriota and Masaru Ibuka considered themselves to be.