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	Sony offers a wide range of digital cameras. Its point-and-shoot models adopt the [[Cyber-shot]] name, while [[digital single-lens reflex]] models are branded using [[Sony Alpha\|Alpha]]. It also produces [[action camera]]s and [[camcorder]]s, with the company's [[Digital movie camera\|cinema-grade]] products being sold under the [[CineAlta]] name.		Sony offers a wide range of digital cameras. Its point-and-shoot models adopt the [[Cyber-shot]] name, while [[digital single-lens reflex]] models are branded using [[Sony Alpha\|Alpha]]. It also produces [[action camera]]s and [[camcorder]]s, with the company's [[Digital movie camera\|cinema-grade]] products being sold under the [[CineAlta]] name.

	Sony demonstrated a prototype of the [[Sony Mavica]] in 1981 and released it for the consumer market in 1988. The first Cyber-shot was introduced in 1996. Sony's market share of the digital camera market fell from a high of 20% to 9% by 2005.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Sony Global – Product & Technology Milestones-Digital Camera \|url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-g.html \|access-date=2020-08-03 \|website=www.sony.net}}</ref><ref name="Nakamoto">Nakamoto, Michiyo. "Screen Test: Stringers Strategy Will Signal to what Extent Sony can Stay in the Game CONSUMER ELECTRONICS: The Japanese Company that Once Brought the World Market-Defining Products is being Trounced by More Agile Competitors and must Decide which Activities no Longer Form Part of its Future, Writes Michiyo Nakamoto." Financial Times: 17. ABI/INFORM Global. 21 September 2005. Web. 27 May 2012.</ref>		Sony demonstrated a prototype of the [[Sony Mavica]] in 1981 and released it for the consumer market in 1988. The first Cyber-shot was introduced in 1996. Sony's market share of the digital camera market fell from a high of 20% to 9% by 2005.<ref name="Nakamoto">Nakamoto, Michiyo. "Screen Test: Stringers Strategy Will Signal to what Extent Sony can Stay in the Game CONSUMER ELECTRONICS: The Japanese Company that Once Brought the World Market-Defining Products is being Trounced by More Agile Competitors and must Decide which Activities no Longer Form Part of its Future, Writes Michiyo Nakamoto." Financial Times: 17. ABI/INFORM Global. 21 September 2005. Web. 27 May 2012.</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Sony Global – Product & Technology Milestones-Digital Camera \|url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-g.html \|access-date=2020-08-03 \|website=www.sony.net}}</ref>

	Sony entered the market for [[digital single-lens reflex camera]]s in 2006 when it acquired the camera business of [[Konica Minolta]]. Sony rebranded the company's line of cameras as its [[Sony Alpha\|Alpha]] line. Sony is the world's third largest manufacturer of the cameras, behind [[Canon (company)\|Canon]] and [[Nikon]] respectively.		Sony entered the market for [[digital single-lens reflex camera]]s in 2006 when it acquired the camera business of [[Konica Minolta]]. Sony rebranded the company's line of cameras as its [[Sony Alpha\|Alpha]] line. Sony is the world's third largest manufacturer of the cameras, behind [[Canon (company)\|Canon]] and [[Nikon]] respectively.

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Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo

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	===Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo===		===Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo===
	Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, [[Masaru Ibuka]] started an electronics shop in Shirokiya,<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Sundberg \|first=Stephen \|date=18 September 2016 \|title=Shirokiya Department Store, c. 1910–1940. \| Old Tokyo \|url=http://www.oldtokyo.com/shirokiya-department-store/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918035310/http://www.oldtokyo.com/shirokiya-dept-store.php \|archive-date=18 September 2012 \|access-date=5 November 2020 \|website=Old Tokyo \|language=en-us}}</ref> a department store building in the [[Nihonbashi]] area of [[Tokyo]]. The company started with a capital of ¥190,000<!--, or in USD $1,666.39{{clarification needed \|date=July 2017}} // No true exchange rate before 1949. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen#Fixed_value_of_the_yen_to_the_U.S._dollar --><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Sony Global – History \|url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/ \|access-date=7 July 2017 \|website=www.sony.net \|language=en}}</ref> and a total of eight employees.<ref name="Nobuo">{{Cite news \|last=Nobuo Abiko \|date=26 March 1966 \|title=Pioneering firm upsets Japan hiring: Pattern broken \|page=14 \|work=The Christian Science Monitor \|via=ProQuest}}</ref> On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by [[Akio Morita]] to establish a company called {{nihongo\|Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo\|東京通信工業\|Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō}} (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation).<ref name="History">{{Cite web \|title=Sony Global – Sony History \|url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyHistory/1-01.html \|access-date=16 February 2007}}</ref> The company built Japan's first [[tape recorder]], called the Type-G.<ref name=History/><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Neate \|first=Rupert \|date=1 December 2014 \|title=A history of Sony's successes and failures \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/13/sony-successes-failures-inventions-walkman-music \|access-date=22 April 2019 \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony".<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Chang \|first=Sea-Jin \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blWb6tslZb8C&q=In+1958+sony&pg=PT19 \|title=Sony vs Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics Giants' Battle For Global Supremacy \|date=25 February 2011 \|publisher=John Wiley & Sons \|isbn=9780470830444 \|language=en}}</ref>		Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in Shirokiya,<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Sundberg \|first=Stephen \|date=18 September 2016 \|title=Shirokiya Department Store, c. 1910–1940. \| Old Tokyo \|url=http://www.oldtokyo.com/shirokiya-department-store/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918035310/http://www.oldtokyo.com/shirokiya-dept-store.php \|archive-date=18 September 2012 \|access-date=5 November 2020 \|website=Old Tokyo \|language=en-us}}</ref> a department store building in the [[Nihonbashi]] area of [[Tokyo]]. The company started with a capital of ¥190,000<!--, or in USD $1,666.39{{clarification needed \|date=July 2017}} // No true exchange rate before 1949. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen#Fixed_value_of_the_yen_to_the_U.S._dollar --><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Sony Global – History \|url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/ \|access-date=7 July 2017 \|website=www.sony.net \|language=en}}</ref> and a total of eight employees.<ref name="Nobuo">{{Cite news \|last=Nobuo Abiko \|date=26 March 1966 \|title=Pioneering firm upsets Japan hiring: Pattern broken \|page=14 \|work=The Christian Science Monitor \|via=ProQuest}}</ref> On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by [[Akio Morita]] to establish a company called {{nihongo\|Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo\|東京通信工業\|Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō}} (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation).<ref name="History">{{Cite web \|title=Sony Global – Sony History \|url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyHistory/1-01.html \|access-date=16 February 2007}}</ref> The company built Japan's first [[tape recorder]], called the Type-G.<ref name=History/><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Neate \|first=Rupert \|date=1 December 2014 \|title=A history of Sony's successes and failures \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/13/sony-successes-failures-inventions-walkman-music \|access-date=22 April 2019 \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony".<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Chang \|first=Sea-Jin \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blWb6tslZb8C&q=In+1958+sony&pg=PT19 \|title=Sony vs Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics Giants' Battle For Global Supremacy \|date=25 February 2011 \|publisher=John Wiley & Sons \|isbn=9780470830444 \|language=en}}</ref>

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