Sony Group Corporation, commonly referred to as Sony (Japanese: ソニー・グループ株式会社, Sonī Gurūpu Kabushiki Kaisha) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates.

As of March 2010, Sony has made 92 acquisitions while taking stakes at 56 companies. The company has 83 divestitures since 1983.

Acquisitions

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Date	Company	Business	Country	Value	Used as / Integrated with	References
28 February 1975	WEGA	Consumer electronics	GER		Sony Corporation	[1]
4 February 1982	Music Center	Professional audio	US		Sony Corporation of America	[2]
28 October 1987	Nippon Fairchild Semiconductor chip plant	Semiconductor	JPN		Sony Semiconductor Solutions	[3]
5 January 1988	CBS Records Group, CBS/Sony	Music	US	$2,000,000,000	Sony Music Group	[4]
4 January 1989	Tree International Publishing	Music publishing	US	$40,000,000	Sony Music Group	[5]
12 April 1989	Trans Com Systems	In-flight entertainment	US		Sony Corporation of America	[6]
19 September 1989	Materials Research	Semiconductor	US		Sony Corporation of America	[7]
8 November 1989	Columbia Pictures Entertainment	Film, television	US	$3,400,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[8]
9 November 1989	Guber-Peters Entertainment	Film, television	US	$200,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[9][10]
22 February 1990	AMD chip plant	Semiconductor	US	$55,000,000	Sony Semiconductor Solutions	[11]
26 June 1991	Culver Studios	Film, television	US	$80,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[12]
23 August 1991	RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video	Home entertainment	US	$325,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[13]
21 May 1993	Psygnosis	Video game	UK		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[14]
19 January 1995	Sony of Canada	Consumer electronics	CAN	$207,000,000	Sony Canada	[15]
1 March 1996	Sony Life	Insurance	JPN US		Sony Financial Group	[16]
30 August 2000	RTime	Broadband networks	US		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[17]
1 December 2000	Bend Studio	Video game	US		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[18]
22 January 2001	Naughty Dog	Video game	US		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[19]
9 July 2002	Acuff-Rose Music	Music publishing	US	$157,000,000	Sony Music Group	[20]
7 August 2002	Incognito Entertainment	Video game	US		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[21]
27 September 2002	Aiwa	Consumer electronics	JPN		Sony Corporation	[22]
31 July 2003	Sonic Foundry desktop software business	Editing software	US	$19,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[23]
12 October 2004	GospoCentric Records	Music	US		Sony Music Group	[24]
7 January 2005	International Display Technology	Display	JPN	$177,000,000	Sony Corporation	[25]
27 September 2005	SN Systems	Game development tool	UK		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[26]
7 December 2005	Guerrilla Games	Video game	NED		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[27]
19 January 2006	Konica Minolta camera business	Digital camera	JPN		Sony Corporation	[28]
25 January 2006	Zipper Interactive	Video game	US		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[29]
23 August 2006	Crackle	Film, television, video on demand	US	$65,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[30]
15 May 2007	Sigil Games Online	Video game	US		Sony Pictures Entertainment	[31]
30 May 2007	Famous Music	Music publishing	US	$370,000,000	Sony Music Group	[32][33]
20 September 2007	Evolution Studios, Bigbig Studios	Video game	UK		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[34]
29 February 2008	Sony Bank	Bank	JPN		Sony Financial Group	[35]
4 June 2008	2waytraffic	Television	NED	$363,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[36]
2 July 2008	Gracenote	Automatic content recognition	US	$260,000,000	Sony Corporation of America	[37][38]
1 October 2008	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	Music	JPN GER	$1,200,000,000	Sony Music Group	[39][40][41]
5 December 2008	Sony NEC Optiarc	Computer data storage	JPN		Sony Corporation	[42]
14 January 2009	Embassy Row	Television	US		Sony Pictures Entertainment	[43]
28 January 2010	Convergent Media Systems	Content delivery network	US		Sony Corporation	[44]
10 February 2010	iCyt Mission Technology	Flow cytometry	US		Sony Corporation of America	[45]
2 March 2010	Media Molecule	Video game	UK		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[46][47]
2 February 2011	Suzhou Epson	Display	CHN	$118,000,000	Sony China	[48]
28 February 2011	Toshiba chip plant	Image sensor	JPN	$648,000,000	Sony Semiconductor Solutions	[49]
7 March 2011	Hawk-Eye Innovations	Computer vision	UK		Sony Corporation	[50]
2 August 2011	Sucker Punch Productions	Video game	US		Sony Interactive Entertainment	[51]
28 September 2011	Micronics	Medical device	US		Sony Corporation of America	[52]
24 October 2011	Netblender	Optical disc authoring	US		Sony Corporation of America	[53]
16 February 2012	Sony Ericsson	Mobile phone	JPN SWE	$1,500,000,000	Sony Corporation	[54]
14 June 2012	Multi Screen Media	Television	IND	$271,000,000	Sony Pictures Entertainment	[55]
2 July 2012	Gaikai	Cloud gaming	US	$380,000,000	Sony Interactive Entertainment	[56]
9 August 2012	Sony Network Communications	Internet service provider	JPN	$697,000,000	Sony Corporation	[57]
23 August 2012	Left Bank Pictures	Television	US		Sony Pictures Entertainment	[58][59]
12 September 2012	Pixim	Semiconductor	US		Sony Corporation	[60]
11 November 2013	Senior Enterprise	Nursing	JPN		Sony Financial Group	[61]
29 January 2014	Renesas chip plant	Image sensor