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Tadao Kashio established his own company, Kashio Seisakujo, in April 1946 in Mitaka, Tokyo. The first product created was the yubiwa pipe, a ring for the finger that held a cigarette. Kashio used his profits from the yubiwa pipe to develop their own calculators. The company was later incorporated in 1957 as Casio Computer Co., Ltd. The Kashios believed that giving a westernized name would render the company's consumer and business products more marketable, both locally and globally. Around the same time, Toshio Kashio's invented the world's first compact all-electric calculator (Casio 14-A). The Company profited from this innovation and became the only Japanese manufacturer to specialize in electric computers. In 1965, Casio introduced the …show more content…

Casio first opened plants in neighbouring countries, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Continuing in 1990, the company opened plants in California and in Mexico. By 1996 Casio had plants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea, in addition to its Hong Kong, Taiwan, and North American plants. In the mid-1990s Casio's digital diaries became extremely popular due to functions like fortune-telling, secret passwords, a matchmaking guide, and 'virtual pet’ which appeal to school-age children. They had also gone into the telecommunications industry by developing a small mobile telephone, the 'personal handy-phone system' (PHS) in July 1995, it was similar to the digital mobile phones available in the United States at that time. During 1995, Casio had also come up with videophone and digital camera which was an instant hit. Another popular item of Casio in the mid-1990s was its G-Shock line of shock-resistant watches which was first released in 1983. By the early 1998, 500 different models had been introduced and more than 19 million units had been sold. Casio had also collaborated with Microsoft Corporation to develop the Cassiopeia handheld PC, which was launched in North America in November 1996. In 1999, they introduced the world's first wristwatch with a built-in global positioning system (GPS) function. Casio had their first loss in its whole history in 1999,

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