Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita established Sony on May 7, 1946. The company began modestly as the maker of a rice boiler. The Sony name was derived as a mix of the Latin word sonus, the English word "sunny," and from the word "Sonny-boys" which is Japanese slang for "whiz kids."
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