Curated playlist
2012 mergers and acquisitions
- EMIEMI signed the Beatles and also built the first CT scanner. The British company also ran cinemas and hotels.
- InstagramInstagram grew out of a failed check-in app called Burbn. Its makers kept the photo feature users liked most.
- Variety (magazine)Variety began in 1905 after its founder was fired for panning an act. He borrowed $1,500 to start it.
- Bleacher ReportOne Bleacher Report writer spent three years there and earned $200. He wrote over 500 articles for the site.
- Constellation EnergyConstellation Energy's stock lost more than half its value in one day in 2008.
- VenmoVenmo shows every payment on a public feed by default. Anyone who opens the app can see it, even non-users.
- LucasfilmLucasfilm began on the 10th of December 1971, when filmmaker George Lucas founded it in Marin County, California. Today it is best known for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and for pushing the craft of special effects, sound and computer…
- Ziff DavisZiff Davis began in 1920 as an ad agency placing ads in African American weekly newspapers.
- BenihanaBenihana began its American life in 1964 with a 25-year-old owner and a bankroll of ten thousand dollars. Hiroaki Aoki, known as Rocky, had earned that money driving an ice cream truck in Harlem. He put it into a small restaurant on West…
- Hudson SoftHudson Soft was named after a steam locomotive, not a game. Two brothers began it as a Sapporo radio shop in 1973.