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| Applied Minds |
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Applied Minds Inc. is a company founded in 2000 by ex-Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren that provides technology, design, R&D;, and consulting services to multiple firms, including General Motors, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin,...
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc. | 2005 | |
| Ascend Communications |
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Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.
Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density dialup installations,...
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Stratus Technologies | 1999 | |
| Cray Research, Inc. | Cray Computer Corporation | 1989 | |||
| Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
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SGI is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI delivers a complete
range of high-performance server and storage solutions along with
industry-leading professional services and support that enable its
customers to overcome the challenges of...
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Cray | 2000 | |
| American Telephone & Telegraph Company |
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AT&T; Corporation, originally the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, is an American telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government...
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Bell Atlantic | 1984 | |
| American Telephone & Telegraph Company |
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AT&T; Corporation, originally the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, is an American telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government...
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NYNEX | ||
| Applied Minds |
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Applied Minds Inc. is a company founded in 2000 by ex-Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren that provides technology, design, R&D;, and consulting services to multiple firms, including General Motors, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin,...
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Applied Proteomics, Inc. | ||
| Sarnoff Corporation |
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Sarnoff Corporation, with headquarters in West Windsor, New Jersey, is the former RCA Laboratories. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of SRI International. The headquarters is the site of the development of color television, CMOS technology,...
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Intuity Medical | ||
| Fortum |
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Fortum Oyj is a Finnish publicly listed energy company, which focuses on the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and the north-west of Russia. The head of the company is Tapio Kuula, President and CEO. Fortum operates and maintains power plants and...
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Elcat | 2001 | |
| League of Composers |
The League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music is a society whose stated mission is "to produce the highest quality performances of new music, to champion American composers in the United States and abroad, and to introduce...
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International Composer's Guild | |||
| Element Skateboards |
Element Skateboards (originally called Underworld Element Skateboards) is a skateboard manufacturer and surfwear retailer based in Irvine, California. It is a subsidiary of Billabong International.
The company was founded in 1992 by Johnny...
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2006 | |||
| Volcom |
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Volcom is a clothing manufacturer. Based in Costa Mesa, California, it was founded in 1991 by Richard "Wooly" Woolcott and Tucker "T-Dawg" Hall. The company caters to the surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding markets, born out of the founders'...
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Volcom Entertainment | 1995 | |
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| Imola Informatica |
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We are an italian company with over 20 years of expertise in enterprise IT consulting and
skill transfer. Imola provides highly qualified enterprise strategists,
architects and experts. We have strong experience in the financial,
local government...
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MokaByte | 1997 | |
| Imola Informatica |
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We are an italian company with over 20 years of expertise in enterprise IT consulting and
skill transfer. Imola provides highly qualified enterprise strategists,
architects and experts. We have strong experience in the financial,
local government...
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SensibleLogic | 2006 | |
| Aardman Animations |
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Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, is an Academy Award-winning British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is famous for its stop-motion, clay animation productions, particularly those featuring...
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Aardman Features | ||
| Advanced Decision Systems | Verity Inc | 1988 | |||
| GO Corp. |
GO Corporation was founded in 1987 to create portable computers, an operating system, and software with a pen-based user interface. It was famous not only for its pioneering work in pen-based computing but as well as being one of the most well...
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EO Inc | |||
| Local Knowledge Consulting |
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Giswebsite LLP | May 2007 | ||
| Tum Yeto |
Tum Yeto is a skateboard distribution company that operates out of San Diego, California. Founded in 1989 by professional skateboarder Tod Swank, Tum Yeto manufactures, distributes, exports, and wholesales the Foundation, Toy Machine, Pig Wheels,...
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Zero Skateboards | |||
| Automatic Data Processing |
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Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) ADP, is a global provider of integrated computings and business outsourcing. ADP has nearly $8 billion in revenues and approximately 585,000 clients. ADP offers a range of HR, payroll, tax and benefits...
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Broadridge Financial Solutions | Apr 2, 2007 | |
| Obvious Corp | Oct 2007 | ||||
| NCR Corporation |
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NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a technology company specializing in products for the retail, financial, travel, healthcare, food service, entertainment, gaming and public sector industries. Its main products are self-service kiosks, point-of-sale...
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Teradata | ||
| GUS |
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GUS plc was a FTSE 100 retailing group based in the United Kingdom. GUS is an abbreviation of Great Universal Stores, the company's former name before 2001. On 10 October 2006, the company was split into two separate companies which continue to...
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Experian | Oct 11, 2006 | |
| Veolia Environmental |
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Veolia Environnement SA (Euronext: VIE, NYSE: VE) is a multinational French company with activities in four main areas - water, waste management, energy and transport services. In 2007 it had revenues of $47bn and employed around 300,000 people. It...
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Culligan | ||
| US Filter | Culligan | ||||
| Apple Inc. |
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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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Claris | ||
| Internet Archive |
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The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive of the World Wide Web. The Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996....
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Alexa Internet | ||
| Culligan |
Culligan is an international water purification company headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois. Culligan specializes in water softeners, water filtration systems and bottled water for residential and office applications.
Culligan was founded by Emmett...
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Everpure | 2004 | ||
| Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice |
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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. Founded in 1978, CD&R; has invested over $11 billion of capital in 42 U.S. and European businesses—mostly subsidiaries or divisions of large multi-business...
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Kinko's | ||
| Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice |
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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. Founded in 1978, CD&R; has invested over $11 billion of capital in 42 U.S. and European businesses—mostly subsidiaries or divisions of large multi-business...
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FedEx Kinko's | ||
| Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice |
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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. Founded in 1978, CD&R; has invested over $11 billion of capital in 42 U.S. and European businesses—mostly subsidiaries or divisions of large multi-business...
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VWR International | ||
| 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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Dresser Inc. | Apr 10, 2001 | |
| 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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Kellogg, Brown and Root | Apr 5, 2007 | |
| Adelaide Hills Stationery | Hills Copy Shop | ||||
| Adelaide Hills Stationery | Adelaide Hills Computing | ||||
| Megaw & Hogg National Valuers | Valuation Exchange | 2005 | |||
| Kohn Pedersen Fox |
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (also known by the acronym KPF) is an international architectural design firm located in New York, London and Shanghai providing urban design and master planning for public authorities and private companies. The firm's...
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Kohn Pedersen Fox Conway Associates | 1984 | ||
| I.M. Pei and Associates | I.M. Pei and Partners | ||||
| I.M. Pei and Partners | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | 1989 | |||
| Burlington Northern Railroad |
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The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company operating between 1970 and 1996.
Burlington Northern Railroad was the product of a March 2, 1970, merger comprising the Great Northern Railway, the...
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Burlington Resources | 1988 | |
| WSP Group |
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WSP Group plc (LSE: WSH) is a British-based business providing management and consultancy services to the built and natural environment. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The Company was...
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WSP Environmental | 1995 | |
| KPMG |
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KPMG is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Deloitte) and Ernst & Young (EY). Its global headquarters are located in...
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BearingPoint | Jan 31, 2000 | |
| Daimler AG |
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Daimler AG (ISIN: DE0007100000) (formerly Daimler-Benz AG, DaimlerChrysler AG) is a German car corporation (not to be confused with the British Daimler Motor Company) and the world's thirteenth largest car manufacturer as well as the largest truck...
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Chrysler LLC | Aug 3, 2007 | |
| Procter & Gamble |
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Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G;, NYSE: PG) is a Fortune 500, American multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of consumer goods. As of 2008, P&G; is the 8th largest corporation in the world by market...
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Sunny Delight Beverages | Aug 2004 | |
| Ford Motor Company |
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The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury...
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Visteon | ||
| Idealab |
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Idealab (formerly known as idealab!) is a business incubator based in Pasadena, California.
Idealab was founded by Bill Gross in March 1996. Prior to Idealab, he founded GNP Loudspeakers (now GNP Audio Video), an audio equipment manufacturer; GNP...
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Blastoff.com | ||
| Altria Group |
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Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) (previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc.), based in Henrico County, Virginia, is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc., Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and Ste Michelle Wine Estates, and...
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Kraft Foods | Mar 2007 | |
| Kraft Foods |
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Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second-largest in the world (after Nestlé SA). It markets many brands in more than 155 countries.
The company is headquartered in...
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Dart & Kraft | ||
| Zegrahm Expeditions, Inc. | Zegrahm Space Voyages | ||||
| Sears Holdings Corporation |
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Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is the eighth largest retailer in the United States, trailing behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Costco, Target, CVS Caremark, Walgreens, and Kroger. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of Sears, Roebuck and...
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Allstate | 1995 | |
| General Electric |
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General Electric
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Genworth Financial | 2004 | |
| Motorola |
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Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is an American, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, and also designs and sells wireless network infrastructure...
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ON Semiconductor | Aug 4, 1999 | |
| Sveriges Radio |
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Sveriges Radio AB (SR) – Sweden's Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges...
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Sveriges Television | ||
| Supervalu |
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SuperValu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United...
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ShopKo Stores | 1991 | |
| Whynotad | Gossip Craze Inc. | ||||
| Graz University of Technology |
Graz University of Technology (German: "Technische Universität Graz", short "TU Graz") is (after University of Graz) the second largest university in Styria, Austria. In Austria there are two Universities of Technology, one in Graz and one in Vienna...
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2001 | |||
| Merck & Co. |
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Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The headquarters of the company is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an...
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Medco Health Solutions | ||
| Altria Group |
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Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) (previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc.), based in Henrico County, Virginia, is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc., Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and Ste Michelle Wine Estates, and...
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Philip Morris International | Mar 28, 2008 | |
| Arthur Andersen |
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Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations. In 2002,...
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Accenture | ||
