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SONY CORPORATION ANNUAL REPORT 2000
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Sony has financial subsidiaries including Sony Finance International, Inc., Sony
Life Insurance Co., Ltd., and Sony Assurance Inc. and believes that such financial
services can be defined as a type of network business. In the area of network
banking, Sony is in the process of establishing a “net bank” with the idea of
offering convenience in the network era. Sony considers this net bank to be a
very strategic project in the carrying out of Sony’s network business strategy.
Sony envisions net-based financial services as a business sector alongside electronics and
entertainment and will be offering a growing selection of competitive services within a net-
work environment.
BUILDING NETWORK PLATFORMS
For the distribution of content and the provision of services over networks, in addition to e-
commerce of hardware such as electronic products, it is important to build network platforms
that tie together hardware, in the form of gateways, with such content and services.
Sony’s Internet service provider So-net, which has been operating in Japan since 1996, offers
network-based content and services. So-net aims to become a widely recognized brand in the
media industry by offering new value-added services such as combining broadcasting content
with the Internet.