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2012 mergers and acquisitions
- EMIMarch 1931 marked the birth of Electric and Musical Industries in London. Two giants, Columbia Graphophone Company and Gramophone Company, merged to form a…
- InstagramOn the 6th of October 2010, the Burbn Beta app appeared on the App Store as a prototype created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
- Variety (magazine)The first issue of Variety appeared on the 16th of December 1905. Sime Silverman launched the weekly periodical from New York City to cover theater and…
- Bleacher ReportFour high school classmates from Menlo School in Atherton, California gathered to build a sports website in 2005. Dave Finocchio, Zander Freund, Bryan…
- Constellation EnergyBaltimore Gas and Electric created Constellation as a holding company in 1999. The entity operated more than 35 power plants across 11 states before merging…
- VenmoAndrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail met as freshman roommates at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. They conceived Venmo after helping a friend start…
- LucasfilmGeorge Lucas established Lucasfilm on the 10th of December 1971 in San Rafael, California. The company began with just five employees working out of a small…
- Ziff DavisIn 1920, William Bernard Ziff Sr. established a Chicago advertising agency that secured national contracts for African American weekly newspapers.
- Hudson SoftHudson Soft began as CQ Hudson, an amateur radio shop in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Japan. The business opened on the 18th of May 1973, founded by brothers Yuji…