Sony Electronics holds a virtual trade show
Sony Electronics staged a virtual trade show today for fans of professional broadcasting equipment. The company said thousands of people registered for the event, which was staged by InXpo in Chicago.
The event marks the first time that Sony Electronics has endorsed the virtual trade show concept, which has been pushed by a variety of startups in the past couple of years as a way to cut travel and hotel expenses.
Alec Shapiro, senior vice president of… Continue Reading
Sony invests $15M into Omneon, a networked storage and server company for broadcasters
Sony Electronics has invested $15 million into Omneon, a Sunnyvale, Calif., company that makes networked storage and servers for high-quality broadcasting.
Omneon filed to go public late last year, but has so not followed up with its IPO plans, according to VentureWire this morning (sub required).
The company has now raised more than $100 million since it launched in 1998, and gives the company a foot in the door to access to Sony’s broadcast customers. Previous investors… Continue Reading