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Employer | Zwickau |
AUDI AG, (Xetra: NSU), more commonly known as Audi , is a premium German automobile manufacturer and one of the world's leading performance-luxury marque, with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. It has been an almost wholly-owned (99.7%)...
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Operating System Developer | Apr 1, 1976 | California |
Apple Inc. (, , ), formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely related software products. Established in Cupertino, California on April 1 1976,...
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| Adventure International | Computer Game Developer | 1978 |
Adventure International was a video game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system....
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| AOL |
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Venture Funded Company | 1985 |
AOL LLC. (formerly America Online, Inc.) is an American global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner and was headquartered in Loudoun County, Virginia until late April 2008 when it was moved to new offices at 770 Broadway in...
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| Amway |
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Employer | 1959 |
Amway is a multi-level marketing, or network marketing company founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos. The company's name is a contraction of "American Way." Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported...
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| Adobe Systems | Software Developer | Dec 1982 | Mountain View |
Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee ) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.
Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after...
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| Atari |
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Computer Designer | 1993 |
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. As of 2007, it is owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA).Atari Interactive has in...
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| Ajax Amsterdam |
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Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax , also referred to as AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax, is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ...
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| Aston Martin |
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Automobile make | 1913 |
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is an English manufacturer of luxury performance cars, whose headquarters are at Gaydon, Warwickshire, England. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the...
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| American Airlines | Aircraft Owner | 1930 |
American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a US-based airline and the world's largest airline in total passengers-miles transported, passenger fleet size, and the second largest airline in terms of aircraft operated (FedEx Express, a cargo airline has more...
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| Advanced Micro Devices |
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Processor Manufacturer | 1969 |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (abbreviated AMD; ) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processor and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets. Its main products...
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| Aon Corp. |
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Employer | Chicago |
Aon Corporation is a world leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting.It is based in Chicago, at the Aon Center, the second...
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| ARY Group | Employer |
The ARY Group is a Dubai-based holding company founded by a Pakistan businessman, Haji Abdul Razzak Yaqoob (ARY). Haji Abdul Razzak is the Chairman of the Group. The ARY Group is into various sectors, which include:
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| Arianespace |
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Employer | 1980 |
As of 2007 Arianespace held more than 50 percent of the world market for boosting satellites to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). More than 240 commercial launches have occurred since May 22, 1984, and Arianespace states that the total number of...
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| Boeing |
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Aircraft manufacturer | Jul 15, 1916 | Seattle |
The Boeing Company (, ) is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William E. Boeing. Its international headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Boeing is the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, orders and...
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| BMW |
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Employer | Jul 21, 1917 | Milbertshofen-Am Hart |
(BMW), is an independent German automobile manufacturer. BMW is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-performance and luxury automobile and motorcycles, and is the parent company of the MINI and Rolls-Royce car brands.
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| British Airways |
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Airline | 1924 |
British Airways plc is the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. Its main hubs are London Heathrow and London Gatwick. British Airways holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A...
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| Bomis | Employer | 1996 |
Bomis is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell , and provided support for the free encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia....
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| Borland |
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Software Developer | 1983 | Cupertino |
Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Borland is best known for its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) business...
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| BBC | Musical Artist | 1922 | London |
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known simply as the BBC, is the world's largest broadcasting corporation.
It has 28,500 employees in the United Kingdom alone and an annual budget of more than £4 billion.
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| British Rail | Employer |
British Railways (BR), which later traded as British Rail, ran most of the British railway system from the nationalisation of the 'Big Four' British railway companies in 1948 until privatisation in stages from 1994 to 1997.
This period of...
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| Burroughs |
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The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company in St. Louis, Missouri selling an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs.
The company moved to Detroit in 1904 and changed its name to the Burroughs Adding...
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| Bombardier |
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Employer | Valcourt |
Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian conglomerate, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. Over the years it has been a large manufacturer of regional aircraft, business...
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| British Steel |
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British Steel was a major British steel producer. It originated as a nationalised industry, the British Steel Corporation (BSC), formed in 1967. This was converted to a limited company, British Steel plc, and privatised in 1988. Following subsequent...
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| BT Group |
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BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT ( bee tee) (previously known as British Telecom and still occasionally referred to by that name) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. It is the dominant...
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| Blizzard Entertainment |
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Computer Game Publisher | 1991 |
Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California.
In December 2007 it was announced that Vivendi Games would merge with Activision, using Blizzard's name...
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| Becker's Milk | Employer |
Becker's Milk is a franchised chain of convenience store in Ontario, Canada.
The assets of Becker's were acquired by Silcorp, parent company of rival Mac's Convenience Stores in November 1996. Becker's continues operation as a property owner....
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