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Fun facts:

Sony has 168,000 employees
Sony has annual sales of $57 billion.
In its last fiscal year, Sony sold 56 million devices: 19 million Walkmans, 6 million stereos, 10 million television sets, 5 million video players, 4 million PCs, 4 million computer screens, 5 million camcorders, 3 million digital cameras - some $36 billion worth in all.
Sony is the only conglomerate to be in both consumer electronics and entertainment.
Sony lost money on hardware: "Japan's consumer electronics giants are being squeezed by upstarts in China, Taiwan, and Korea, where manufacturing costs are far cheaper. Without entertainment, which provided 30 percent of the company's revenue and nearly all its profits, Sony would be as bad off as Matsushita, NEC, and Toshiba."
PressPlay subscribers haven't even topped the 50,000 mark, while Kazaa, the leading file-sharing service, has 60 million users.