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2008 mergers and acquisitions

  • CNETHalsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie launched c/net, a 24-hour cable network about computers and technology in 1992. They produced four pilot television programs…
  • New Line CinemaOn the 18th of June 1967, a twenty-seven-year-old Robert Shaye established New Line Cinema in New York City. He operated the company from his apartment at…
  • ReutersPaul Julius Reuter established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange in 1851. He had previously developed a prototype service in Aachen using…
  • Box Office MojoBrandon Gray launched Box Office Mojo on the 7th of August 1998. He began by predicting which ten films would earn the most money in the United States for…
  • NBCUniversal Entertainment JapanPioneer Corporation founded the LaserDisc Corporation in March 1981 to produce LaserDisc players in Japan. The company began as a hardware manufacturer…
  • HighBeam ResearchPatrick Spain stood at the center of a digital shift in August 2002. He had just sold Hoover's, a company he co-founded, and turned his attention to eLibrary…