Back in 1979, Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka was looking for a way to listen to classical music on long-haul flights. In ...

The last time Sony was worth this much on the stock market, Bill Clinton was president and the PlayStation 2 was about to ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. First it was vinyl, and now it’s cassettes that all the cool kids want, as nostalgia takes over the music world. It seems both those ...

This solid-looking update of the classic Walkman form factor doesn’t quite match up to the technical wonders of the earlier era, when players could be literally the same size as a cassette case. The ...

The dimensions of We Are Rewind’s Bluetooth cassette player are roughly the same as Sony’s first-ever Walkman from 1979 — but by the time the cassette Walkman ended its initial run in the ...

In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, a small, lightweight and belt-worn audio cassette player that let a person comfortably listen to music via headphones while walking or running. The progenitor ...

For the next three decades, the Japanese company emerged as a household name in consumer electronics, producing iconic devices from the Trinitron color TV in 1968 to the Walkman cassette player in ...