Leading Technologies

  From rice cookers and tape recorders to magnetic tape recorders to TVs and the most successful video game consoles,  today we learn the impressive history of Sony.  Akio Morita, one of the founders of Sony, was born into a wealthy family in Japan that produces sake.  His family wanted Akio Morita to take the family business further, but he had other passions.  Mathematics and physics were his main interests,  so to his family's disappointment, he enrolled at Osaka Imperial University.  During all this time he became very concerned with sound recording techniques.  Immediately after graduation, he enlisted in the Naval Forces,  where he met Masaru Ibuka, an electronics engineer who became his best friend.  It seems that this friendship, along with their acquaintances, led to the birth of the later giant company, Sony.  In 1946, the two founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, an electronics store.  Their first product wa...

  In today's post, we will briefly present the history of Samsung  and you will see how a company that sold fish and noodles  has become one of the most important and innovative companies in the world.  So, let's get to know its history and see how Samsung got to where it is today.  Before starting this video don't forget to activate the subtitles and smash the like button!    The famous Samsung company was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-Chull as a trading company,  based in Taegu, Korea.  But who would have thought that Samsung started by selling fish, vegetables, and even noodles,  and the small grocery store had only 40 employees?  In 1947, after the company grew, he moved to Seoul  but left for Busan after the outbreak of the Korean War.  There, Lee opened a sugar refinery,  and in 1954 he founded a clothing company, where his factory had the largest weaving mill in the country.  Thus, after almost 30 years sin...

  In today's post, we will discover the story of a successful company in the mobile phone industry.  We will find out how it managed to compete with the largest phone manufacturers in the world  and how it managed to earn one billion dollars in just two years since its establishment.  Before starting this post don't forget to activate the subtitles and smash the like button!    OnePlus was founded by two Oppo employees,  and their idea to create a phone company came from a coffee break discussion,  where they noticed that all employees had Apple phones.  "Why do the people around this table all use iPhones?"  This is where it all started.  The two founders, Pete Lau and Carl Pei wanted to produce high-end quality phones  that had a lower price than other phones in this class.  Therefore, OnePlus was founded in 2013, is headquartered in Shenzhen, and is currently majority-owned by Oppo.  The company's success was due t...

  In today's post, we will travel 30 years ago to discover the story of Huawei, one of the global technology leaders.  It all started in a small apartment in Shenzhen in 1987.  Ren Zhengfei, 44, a former deputy director of the People's Liberation Army's engineering corps, founded Huawei.  When all of China's telecommunications infrastructure was imported from abroad,  Ren wanted to set up a Chinese domestic telecommunications company.  So, in the beginning, the main object of the activity was the resale of private branch exchange (PBX) switches imported from Hong Kong.  Soon, around the 1990s, the company had its own research and development center already employing about 600 employees,  who began their own development and marketing of PBX switches.  Subsequently, Huawei stood out through various major projects,  the main launch point of the company on the market being the realization of the most powerful switch in China,  the C ...