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Use the merger type when two companies, typically equal in size, join together to form one company. Examples include:
- Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham form GlaxoSmithKline
- SBC and AT&T form a new AT&T Inc If one company becomes a subsidiary of the other, that typically means they...
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| ACC Corporation | 1995 | Red Hat Software | |||
| Penn Central Transportation |
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The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American railroad company that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the merger on February 1, 1968, of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York...
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| Lehigh and Hudson River Railway |
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The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR;) was the smallest of the six railroads that were merged into Conrail in 1976. It was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey, connecting the line to the Poughkeepsie Bridge...
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| Central Railroad of New Jersey |
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The Central Railroad of New Jersey (reporting mark CNJ), commonly known as the Jersey Central Lines or CNJ, was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s, lasting until 1976 when it was absorbed into Conrail with the other bankrupt railroads of...
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| Lehigh Valley Railroad |
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The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was one of a number of railroads built in the northeastern United States primarily to haul anthracite coal.
It was incorporated 1846-04-21 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania as the Delaware, Lehigh,...
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| Erie Lackawanna Railway |
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The Erie Lackawanna Railway (reporting mark EL), known as the Erie–Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The...
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| Pennsylvania Railroad |
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The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR) was an American railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The PRR was the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the U...
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Penn Central Transportation | ||
| New York Central Railroad |
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The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC), known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States. Headquartered in New York, the railroad served most of the Northeast, including...
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| Tera Computer Company |
Tera Computer Company was a manufacturer of high-performance computing software and hardware, founded in 1987 in Washington, D.C. and moved 1988 to Seattle, Washington by James Rottsolk and Burton Smith. The company's first supercomputer product,...
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2000 | Cray | ||
| Cray Research, Inc. | |||||
| GTE |
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GTE Corporation (formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation) was the largest of the "independent" US telephone companies during the days of the Bell System. It acquired the third largest independent, Continental Telephone (ConTel) in 1991....
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Jun 30, 2000 | Verizon Communications | |
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| Noosh | NewlineNoosh | ||||
| Newline Management | NewlineNoosh | ||||
| Biogen Inc. | Nov 2003 | Biogen Idec | |||
| IDEC Pharmaceuticals |
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IDEC is a leader in the discovery, development, and commercialization
of targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune
diseases. IDEC discovered and developed the first commercially
available radioimmunotherapy product (Zevalin...
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| CKS Group |
CKS Group was an advertising agency based in Cupertino, California, catering to technology companies. The initials CKS came from the three name partners, Bill Cleary, Mark Kvamme, and Tom Suiter. All three had previously worked for Apple Computer....
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| USWeb |
USWeb is currently an Internet marketing company going by the same name as the original USWeb of the 1990's. The original USWeb was founded as a Web design company which expanded during the dot-com boom into consulting and online marketing. After...
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| Flexcar |
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Flexcar was a for-profit car sharing company, the oldest and second-largest in the United States behind Boston-based Zipcar, which it merged with in late 2007. This article discusses Flexcar's operations prior to the merger; most Flexcar operations...
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| Zipcar |
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Past
In the fall of 1999, our two Zipcar founders were sitting in a café,
excited about a concept they had seen in Berlin while on vacation. Cars
were parked around the city for members to drive by the hour instead of
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| Biogen Idec |
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Biogen Idec, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. and San Diego,...
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IDEC Pharmaceuticals | ||
| Agere Systems |
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Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation.
Agere was incorporated...
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Apr 2, 2007 | LSI Corporation | |
| LSI Corporation |
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LSI Corporation, formerly LSI Logic Corporation, designs, develops and
markets complex, high-performance semiconductors and storage systems.
The Company is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software
technologies that enable...
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| Activision |
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Activision (ATVI) is an American video game developer and publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its...
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Dec 2007 | Activision Blizzard | |
| Vivendi Games |
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Vivendi Games, formerly known as Vivendi Universal Games, was the holdings company for Sierra Entertainment and Blizzard Entertainment. Vivendi Games was founded as Vivendi Universal Games after Vivendi bought Universal in the early 2000s. Before...
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| IP Unity Glenayre |
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IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. is the leader in delivering carrier–grade messaging and multimedia solutions over IP, TDM and enterprise networks. The company’s unified communications framework brings together messaging services and rich media distribution...
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| Glenayre Messaging | 2006 | ||||
| IP Unity Glenayre |
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IP Unity Glenayre, Inc. is the leader in delivering carrier–grade messaging and multimedia solutions over IP, TDM and enterprise networks. The company’s unified communications framework brings together messaging services and rich media distribution...
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| College Tonight |
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College Tonight is a social networking experience for college-aged
students, graduate students and alumni, one that promotes actual social
interactivity rather than the sedentary lifestyle nearly all "social
networks" relegate its users to behind a...
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| Authorware Inc. | 1992 | Macromedia | |||
| MacroMind-Paracomp | 1992 | Macromedia | |||
| Onelist |
ONElist was a free mailing list service created by Mark Fletcher in August 1997. In November 1999 ONElist merged with eGroups. In June 2000 eGroups was purchased by Yahoo!.
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| eGroups |
eGroups.com was an email list management web site.
The site allowed users to create their own mailing lists and allowed
others to sign up for membership on the list. The web site provided archives
of the messages as well as list management...
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| EGroups.com | eGroups | ||||
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| MultiMode Inc | 2006 | ||||
| Clickatell |
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Clickatell has been a leader in global mobile messaging since 2000.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, the company serves over
8,000 businesses worldwide. Its global coverage of 600+ mobile networks
in almost 200 countries
makes Clickatell...
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| Ashtech Corporation | 1997 | Magellan Corporation | |||
| Magellan Navigation |
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Magellan Navigation, Inc. is a producer of consumer and professional grade global positioning system receivers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering in Carquefou, France, Magellan also produces aftermarket...
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| Email Systems Ltd |
Email Systems Ltd. is a British software company based in Westerham, Kent, England. It produces website and e-mail filtering and desktop security software for both enterprise users.
Email Systems offers its services to market via a network of...
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| Webroot Software |
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Webroot Software, Inc.
provides industry leading security software for consumers, enterprises
and small and medium–sized businesses worldwide. The Boulder, Colorado
based company is privately held and backed by some of the industry's
leading venture...
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| Photoways | Apr 2006 | Photoways Group | |||
| PhotoBox |
PhotoBox is an internet-based digital photo printing company founded in 2000 by Graham Hobson. PhotoBox is part of the 'Photoways Group', which consists of PhotoBox, and its French counterpart, Photoways, leading to their claim that they are Europe...
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Apr 2006 | Photoways Group | ||
| Pixdiscount | Photoways Group | ||||
| VaxGen |
VaxGen is a biopharmaceutical company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 1990s VaxGen developed, and began trials of, an AIDS vaccine called AIDSVAX. However, in 2003 it was announced that the preliminary trials of the vaccine, conducted in...
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| Raven biotechnologies |
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Raven biotechnologies, inc. is focused on the discovery of new drug targets for life-threatening conditions and the development of antibody therapeutic products to treat them. To drive the discovery, development andcommercialization of our...
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| 80108 Media |
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80108 Media is a mobile media company that directly delivers 100% original local content to consumers when and how they want it. 80108's core offering is a text messaging service that distributes insider information written by their network of on...
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Oct 2007 | go2 Media | |
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| Trados |
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Enables translators to manage the process of performing the core
translation process. Using the latest technology and integrating
across the translation supply chain teams of people can work
efficiently managing multiple projects and...
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| Dondecomprar.com | 2000 | Kelkoo | |||
| Kelkoo |
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Kelkoo was founded in 1999 by Pierre Chappaz and Mauricio
Lopez. Initial funding of $3 million was provided by Banexis Ventures and
Innovacom. Kelkoo.com was founded in 2000, following mergers with Zoomit,
Dondecomprar and Shopgenie.  ...
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| ShopGenie | 2000 | Kelkoo | |||
| Kelkoo |
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Kelkoo was founded in 1999 by Pierre Chappaz and Mauricio
Lopez. Initial funding of $3 million was provided by Banexis Ventures and
Innovacom. Kelkoo.com was founded in 2000, following mergers with Zoomit,
Dondecomprar and Shopgenie.  ...
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| Zoomit | Kelkoo | ||||
| Kelkoo |
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Kelkoo was founded in 1999 by Pierre Chappaz and Mauricio
Lopez. Initial funding of $3 million was provided by Banexis Ventures and
Innovacom. Kelkoo.com was founded in 2000, following mergers with Zoomit,
Dondecomprar and Shopgenie.  ...
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| JDS Uniphase |
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JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) is a company that designs and manufactures products for optical communications products, communications test and measurement equipment, lasers, optical solutions for authentication and decorative applications, and other custom...
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| Atria Software | Pure Atria Software | ||||
| Pure Software |
Pure Software was founded in October 1991 by Reed Hastings, who later founded Netflix and continues to serve as Netflix's CEO. It was originally designed solely around a debugging tool for engineers called Purify. After consistently doubling its...
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Pure Atria Software | |||
| Netifice | Apr 2006 | ||||
| Megapath |
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MegaPath is the leading provider of managed IP
communications services in North America. MegaPath leverages its wide
selection of broadband connectivity, Virtual Private Networks, Voice
over IP (VoIP) and Security technologies to enable...
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| Nautica |
[[Media:]]
Founded in 1983, Nautica has evolved from a collection of men’s outerwear to a leading global lifestyle brand with products ranging from men’s, women’s and children’s apparel and accessories to a complete home collection. Now part of VF...
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Aug 27, 2003 | VF Corporation | ||
| VF Corporation |
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VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) is an American apparel corporation. VF corporation sells jeanswear, intimate apparel, daypacks, and workwear. The corporate headquarters are in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The company was established first as Reading Glove...
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| Didera | Greenplum | ||||
| Metapa | Greenplum | ||||
| Whitecross Systems | Kognitio | ||||
| Kognitio |
Kognitio is an expert provider of software and services for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Analytics and Data Migration.
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| Chase National Bank | 1955 | Chase Manhattan Bank | |||
| Bank of the Manhattan Company |
The Bank of the Manhattan Company (established 1799) is the earliest of the predecessor institutions that eventually formed the current JPMorgan Chase & Co.
As background, the first corporate bank in New York, organized by Alexander Hamilton in 1784...
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| WebMD |
WebMD Health Corporation (NASDAQ: WBMD) is an American provider of health information services. It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy...
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| HLTH Corporation |
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Emdeon delivers professional and economical automated billing and
document mail services for the diverse commercial markets. Emdeon's mission is to provide revenue cycle and clinical communication solutions
that simplify the business and...
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| Kluwer Academic Publishers | 2003 | Springer Science+Business Media | |||
| Springer Verlag | 2003 | Springer Science+Business Media | |||
| Going Places | Thomas Cook Group plc | ||||
| Hewlett-Packard |
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Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. HP has its United States offices at the former old Compaq Campus in unincorporated Harris County,...
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| Electronic Data Systems |
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HP Enterprise Services, is a global business and technology services company, previously known as Electronic Data Systems (EDS), headquartered in Plano, Texas that defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by Ross Perot....
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| Dresser Industries |
Dresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources. In 1998, Dresser merged with its main rival...
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1998 | Halliburton | ||
| Halliburton |
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Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) is a US-based oilfield services corporation with international operations in more than 70 countries. It has close to 300 subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide.
It is based at 5 Houston Center in...
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| Exxon Corporation | 1999 | Exxon Mobil | |||
| Mobil 1 |
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Mobil was a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form ExxonMobil. Today Mobil continues as a major brand name within the combined company. Its former headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, are currently used as ExxonMobil's...
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1999 | Exxon Mobil | |
| Rambøll Group |
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Ramboll Group A/S (also known as just "Ramboll") is the largest consulting engineering group in the Nordic countries. Ramboll is through its many subsidiaries and daughter companies, involved in a variety of international projects all over the world...
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Aug 2007 | Ramboll Whitbybird | |
| Whitbybird and Partners |
Whitby Bird is a multi-disciplinary engineering practice based in the United Kingdom, founded in 1985 by Mark Whitby.
In 2006 Whitby Bird won the Queen's Award for Enterprise for innovation.
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| Lion Breweries | 1988 | Lion Nathan | |||
| LD Nathan & Co | |||||
| Castlemaine Perkins |
Castlemaine Perkins is a brewery located in Milton, Brisbane, Australia. It is a wholly-owned entity of the Japanese-controlled Lion Nathan company.
In 1877, the Fitzgerald brothers of Castlemaine, Victoria bought the site of a failing distillery...
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1980 | Tooheys | ||
| London and Birmingham Railway |
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The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR;) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom from 1833 to 1846 when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR;).
The 112 mile (180km) railway line which the company opened in 1838...
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1846 | London and North Western Railway | |
| Grand Junction Railway |
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The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was merged into the London and North Western Railway. The line built by the company was the first trunk railway to be...
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| Manchester and Birmingham Railway |
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway was built between Manchester and Crewe and opened in stages from 1840. Between Crewe and Birmingham, trains were worked by the Grand Junction Railway. The M&BR; was merged into the London and North Western...
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1846 | London and North Western Railway | ||
| Grand Junction Railway |
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The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was merged into the London and North Western Railway. The line built by the company was the first trunk railway to be...
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| Great Northern Railway |
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The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846.
The main line ran from London via Hitchin, Peterborough, and Grantham, to York, with a loop line from Peterborough to Bawtry (south...
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1923 | London and North Eastern Railway | |
| Great Northern Railway |
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The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN), running from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington — more than 1,700 miles (2,736 km) — was the creation of the 19th century railroad tycoon James J. Hill and was developed from the St. Paul and...
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1970 | Burlington Northern Railroad | |
| Northern Pacific Railway |
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The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a railway that operated in the north-central region of the United States. The railroad served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota,...
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| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad |
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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or as the Q, the Burlington Route served a large area, including extensive trackage...
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| Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway |
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The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (reporting mark SPS) was a United States-based railroad incorporated in 1905. It was a joint venture by the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway to build a railroad along the north bank of...
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| @stake |
@stake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initial core team of...
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Jan 2000 | @stake | ||
| L0pht |
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L0pht Heavy Industries (pronounced "loft") was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
The second character in its name was originally a slashed zero, a symbol used by old teletypewriters and...
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| Margarine Unie |
The Dutch company Margarine Unie (English: Margarine Union Limited) grew in the 1920s through mergers of several margarine companies, among which Centra and Schicht and above all the companies of Antonius Johannes Jurgens and Samuel van den Bergh....
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1930 | Unilever | ||
| Lever Brothers |
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The British manufacturer Lever Brothers was founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James.
In 1885 they bought a small soap works in Warrington. Using glycerin and vegetable oils such as palm oil, rather than tallow, to manufacture...
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