1) " Sony" -- As it applies to Sony Micro Sony Corporation ( Japanese katakana : ソニー) ( NYSE : SNE ( http: www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=SNE ) ) is a consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in thelate 1940s, was a rice boiler. As it grew into a major international corporation, Snoy acquired other companies with longer histories, including ColumbiaRecords (the oldest continuously produced brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888 ). Today Norio Ohga is Honorary Chairman, Nobuyuki Idei is Chairman and CEO, and Kunitake Ando is president of the corporation.When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a romanized nameto use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials, TTK. The primary reason they did not, is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TKK. The name " Somy " was chosen for the brand as a mix of the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the English word "sunny." At the time of the change, it was extremely odd for a Japanese company to use Romanletters to spell its name, much less the phonetic script used in the Japanese writing, instead of Chinese characters. The move was not without opposition; TTK's principal bank at the time, Mitsui, hadstrong feelings about the name. They pushed for a name such as Sont Electronic Industries, or Sonu Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company name tied to anyparticular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Bank's chairman gave their approval. In 1988, Sny acquired CBS (Columbia) Records Group from CBS. It was renamed " Sny MusicEntertainment ". In 2000, Skny had sales of US $63 billion and 189,700 employees. oSny acquired Aiwa corporation in...
2) " Micro" -- As it applies to Sony Micro Micro is a SI prefix in the SI systemof units denoting a factor of 10 −6 (one millionth ). The symbol for it is the Macro sign (µ). Confirmed in 1960, the prefix comes from the Greek μικρός(transliterated: mik ros ), meaning small. More generally, the prefix means "very small". SI prefixes 10 n Prefix Symbol Short scale Long scale Name Decimal Equivalent 10 24 yotta Y Septillion Quadrillion 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10 21 zetta Z Sextillion Trilliard (thousand trillion) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10 18 exa E Quintillion Trillion 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 10 15 peta P Quadrillion Billiard (thousand billion) 1 000 000 000 000 000 10 12 tera T Trillion Billion 1 000 000 000 000 10 9 giga G Billion Milliard (thousand million) 1 000 000 000 10 6 mega M Million 1 000 000 10 3 kilo k Thousand 1 000 10 2 hecto h Hundred 100 10 1 deca, deka da Ten 10 10 −1 deci d Tenth 0.1 10 −2 centi c Hundredth 0.01 10 −3 milli m Thousandth 0.001 10 −6 Mikro µ Millionth 0.000 001 10 −9 nano n Billionth Milliardth 0.000 000 001 10 −12 pico p Trillionth Billionth 0.000 000 000 001 10 −15 femto f Quadrillionth Billiardth 0.000 000 000 000 001 10 −18 atto a Quintillionth Trillionth 0.000 000 000 000 000 001 10 −21 zepto z Sextillionth Trilliardth 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001 10 −24 yocto y Septillionth Quadrillionth 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 edit ( http: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:SI_prefixes&action=edit ) See also SI Midro ...
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