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Metaweb Technologies, Inc., builds infrastructure for Web application
developers and publishers. Based in San Francisco, Metaweb was spun out
of Applied Minds, Inc., in July 2005 by veterans of Netscape, The
Internet Archive, Alexa, Tellme, Intel and Broderbund.
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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News,...
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Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET) is an American diversified health insurance company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans,...
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Tellme Networks is a company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue and Angus Davis, based out of Mountain View, California, in the United States, that specializes in telephone-based applications. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007 for "close to $800M". The deal closed in late April...
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The University of Calgary is a research-intensive public university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University is composed of 24,000 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students.
Initially, the university was the Calgary Branch of the University of Alberta. In the first half of the 20th century, the...
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Maxis Software is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987. It is currently a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA). Maxis is the creator of the best-selling computer game of all time, The Sims and the sequels The Sims 2'. These titles and their related products are...
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Radar Networks is building technology for enriching content that will
catalyze the evolution of a new dimension of the Web. This new
dimension is the next frontier in search, advertising, content
distribution and commerce. The company was founded in 2003 and is backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan...
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in...
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The KGB (КГБ, Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti) was the national security agency of the USSR. From 1954 until 1991, the Committee for State Security was the Communist state's premier secret police, internal security, and intelligence organization....
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The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) (Russian: ФСБ, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации; Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the main domestic security service of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era...
