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| x Audi |
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Automobile | Zwickau |
AUDI AG, (Xetra: NSU) is a German company which produces luxury cars under the Audi brand, (pronounced /aˈʊdi/). It is part of the Volkswagen Group. The name Audi is based on a Latin translation of the last name of the founder August "Horch", itself...
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| x Apple Inc. |
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Apr 1, 1976 | Consumer electronics | California |
Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the...
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| x Adventure International |
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1978 | Video game |
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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| x AOL |
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1985 | Internet service provider |
In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths,
making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services,
available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to
move forward on this strategy in 2007, with...
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| x Amway |
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1959 | Multi-level marketing |
Amway is a direct selling company and manufacturer that uses multi-level marketing to sell a wide variety of products, primarily in the health & beauty industry.
Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos. Based in Ada, Michigan,...
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| x Adobe Systems | Dec 1982 | Computer software | Mountain View |
Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced /əˈdoʊbiː/ ə-DOE-bee) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity...
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| x Atari |
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1972 | Consumer electronics |
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA). Atari Interactive has in...
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| x Ajax Amsterdam |
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Professional Sports Clubs and Promoters |
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Euronext: 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...
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| x Aston Martin |
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1913 | Automobile |
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near...
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| x American Airlines |
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1930 | Transportation |
American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a major airline of the United States. It is the world's largest airline in passenger miles transported and passenger fleet size; second largest, behind FedEx Express, in aircraft operated; and second behind Air France...
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| x Advanced Micro Devices |
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1969 | Semiconductor |
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer
electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation,
choice and industry growth by delivering...
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| x Aon Corp. |
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Management consulting | Chicago |
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is a leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. It is based in the Aon Center in the Chicago...
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| x ARY Group | Offices of Other Holding Companies |
The ARY Group or Abdul Razzaq Yaqoob Group is a Dubai-based holding company founded by a Pakistani 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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| x Arianespace |
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1980 | Aerospace |
Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company. They undertake the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part of the Ariane programme.
As of 2004,...
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| x Boeing |
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Jul 15, 1916 | Aerospace | Seattle |
The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Its international headquarters has been in Chicago,...
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| x BMW |
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Jul 21, 1917 | Automobile | Milbertshofen-Am Hart |
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (info) (BMW), (English: Bavarian Motor Works) is a German automobile and motorcycle manufacturing company. Founded in 1916, it is known for its performance and luxury vehicles. It owns and produces the MINI brand, and is...
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| x British Airways |
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1924 | Airline |
British Airways plc (LSE: BAY) is the national flag carrier of the United Kingdom. The airline, headquartered in Waterside, Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, is the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, international...
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| x Bomis |
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1996 | The Internet |
Bomis (pronounced /ˈbɒmɨs/) 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...
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| x Borland |
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1983 | Computer software | Cupertino |
Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq GM: BORL) is a world leader in platform independent software development and deployment solutions that are designed to accelerate the entire application development lifecycle. By connecting managers, testers,...
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| x BBC |
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1922 | Broadcasting | London |
The British Broadcasting Corporation, almost always referred to by its abbreviation "the BBC", is the world's largest broadcaster. In common with the public broadcasting organisations of many other European countries, it is funded yearly by a...
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| x British Rail | Rail Transportation |
British Railways (BR), which later traded as British Rail, was the operator of 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. At first...
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| x Burroughs |
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Office Equipment |
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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| x Bombardier |
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Aerospace Engineering | Valcourt |
Bombardier Inc. (French pronunciation: [bɔ̃baʁdje]) (pronounced Bum-bar-dee-ay, bomb-bar-deer, or bomb-uh-deer) is a Canadian conglomerate, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern...
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| x British Steel |
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1967 | Steelmaking |
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. It was once a...
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| x BT Group |
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Oct 1, 1981 | Telecommunications |
BT Group plc (formerly known as British Telecom and still occasionally referred to by that name), is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the United...
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| x Blizzard Entertainment |
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1991 | Computer and video game industry |
Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California. It is a division of Activision Blizzard. Blizzard is the creator of several successful PC games, including the Warcraft, StarCraft and...
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| x Becker's Milk | Convenience Stores |
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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| x Birmingham Small Arms Company |
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1861 | Small Arms Manufacturing | Gun Quarter |
The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) was a British manufacturer of vehicles, firearms, and military equipment, and still exists as an airgun sport manufacturer and distributor.
At its peak, BSA was the largest motorcycle producer in the world....
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| x Brisbane Broncos |
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1988 | Professional Sports Clubs and Promoters |
The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. The Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership....
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| x Bentley |
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Jan 18, 1919 | Automobile |
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley (known as W.O. Bentley or just "W.O."). Mr. Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the...
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| x Capcom |
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May 30, 1979 | Computer and video game industry |
Alph Lyla, also known as Alfh Lyra or Alpha Lyla, is Capcom's "house band" composed of Capcom developers. Their best known work is most likely the soundtrack of the popular fighting-game Street Fighter II.
Some well-known members of this band are:...
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| x Channel 4 |
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Television Broadcasting |
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),...
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| x Cessna |
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1927 | Aerospace |
The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well-known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also...
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| x Conectiva |
Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and...
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| x Chaosium |
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1975 | Role-playing game |
Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods. White...
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| x Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. |
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1945 | Investment banking |
Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. is a global financial services firm specializing in bond trading, as well as investment banking, asset management, market data and brokerage services. It was founded in 1945 by Bernard Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald as a...
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| x Ceres Brewery | 1856 | Malt Beverages |
The Ceres Brewery is a brewery located in Aarhus, Denmark. Today, it is part of Royal Unibrew.
It was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery. It was...
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| x Chrysler LLC |
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Jun 6, 1925 | Automobile |
For the vehicle brand Chrysler owned and manufactured by Chrysler Group LLC, See Chrysler (division)
Chrysler Group, LLC is an American automobile manufacturer headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was first...
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| x Chick Publications |
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1961 | Publishing |
Chick Publications is an American publishing company founded and run by Jack T. Chick which produces and markets Protestant fundamentalist pamphlets, DVDs, VCDs, videos, books, and posters. Chick Publications' best-known products are Chick tracts,...
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| x Coleco |
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1932 | Video game |
Coleco was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles...
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| x Commodore International |
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1954 | Computer hardware |
Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a US electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. The company is also known under the name of...
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| x Central Pacific Railroad |
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Rail Transportation |
The Central Pacific Railroad was the California-to-Utah portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
Many proposals to build a transcontinental railroad failed because of the disputes over slavery in Washington; with the...
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| x Compaq |
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Feb 1982 | Computer hardware |
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard.
The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto — former Texas Instruments senior managers. The name ...
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| x Digital Equipment Corporation |
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1957 | Computer | Maynard |
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC (this acronym was frequently officially used by Digital itself, but the trademark was always...
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| x Dutch West India Company |
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Dutch West India Company (Dutch: Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie or GWIC; English: Chartered West India Company) was a company of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx (1567-1647?). On June 3, 1621, it was granted a...
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| x Darcsyde Productions |
Darcsyde Productions is a role-playing game publisher which has produced the Corum supplement for the Chaosium Stormbringer (aka Elric!) RPG and, as of 2002 was working on a Hawkmoon-themed supplement for the same games.
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| x DC Comics |
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Periodical Publishers |
DC Comics (founded originally in 1934 as National Allied Publications) is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. A subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment since 1969, DC...
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| x Ericsson |
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1876 | Telecom Equipment Vendor | Stockholm |
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies,...
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| x Electronic Data Systems |
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1962 | Information technology | Texas |
Electronic Data Systems, an HP Company, commonly EDS, is a global business and technology services company headquartered in Plano, Texas that defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by Ross Perot. General Motors acquired the...
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| x Eurostar |
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Rail Transportation |
Eurostar is a high-speed railway passenger train service in Western Europe connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All Eurostar services cross under the English Channel via the Channel Tunnel, which is owned and operated seperately by Eurotunnel....
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| x Enron | Energy | Omaha |
Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation (formerly Enron Corporation, former NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 and was one of the world...
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| x Exxon Mobil |
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Nov 30, 1999 | Petroleum |
The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil.
ExxonMobil is the...
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| x Epicor |
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1984 | Computer software |
Epicor (NASDAQ: EPIC) develops a range of enterprise software solutions targeted at midmarket companies primarily in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services industries. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California and...
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| x Fox Film |
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Entertainment |
The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the...
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| x First National |
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1917 | Film |
First National was an association of independent theater owners in the United States that expanded from exhibiting movies to distributing them, and eventually to producing them as a movie studio. It later merged with Warner Bros.
The First National...
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| x Foonly |
Foonly was the computer company formed by Dave Poole, who was one of the principal Super Foonly designers as well as one of hackerdom's more colorful personalities.
The PDP-10 successor was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the...
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| x Ford Motor Company |
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Jun 16, 1903 | Automobile |
The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation and the world's fourth largest automaker based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit,...
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| x Fantasy Games Unlimited |
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1975 | Game Publisher |
Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a publishing house for both table-top and role-playing games. They have no in-house design teams and rely on submitted material from outside talent.
Founded in 1975 by Scott Bizar, the...
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| x FASA |
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1980 | Role-playing game |
FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and boardgames between 1980 and 2001. Originally the name FASA was an acronym for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers...
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| x General Motors |
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1908 | Automobile | Flint |
General Motors Corporation (GM) (Pink Sheets: GMGMQ) / (OTCBB: GMGMQ) is a U.S. automaker based in Detroit, Michigan. GM is the world's second-largest automaker, as ranked by global unit sales for 2008. The company is continuing its operations while...
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