Curated playlist
2013 mergers and acquisitions
- The Washington PostThe Washington Post has its own ZIP Code, 20071. The newspaper was founded in 1877 in the capital.
- IGNIGN began in 1996 as five separate gaming websites. Sites like N64.com and PSXPower later merged into one brand.
- TumblrTumblr sold in 2019 for less than $3 million. Yahoo had paid $1.1 billion for it in 2013.
- MobyGamesMobyGames began in 1999 with two friends adding games from their own shelves. It now lists over 300,000 games.
- Pratt & Whitney RocketdynePratt & Whitney Rocketdyne built the Space Shuttle's main engine. The rocket maker lasted only from 2005 to 2013.
- NewsweekIn 1970, sixty women at Newsweek sued because only men could be reporters.
- VenmoVenmo shows every payment on a public feed by default. Anyone who opens the app can see it, even non-users.
- HeinzThe H. J. Heinz Company, known to most people as Heinz, owes its most famous number to a sign seen from a train. In 1896, founder Henry J. Heinz was riding an elevated train in New York City when he noticed a shoe store advertising 21…
- Virgin MediaVirgin Media began as a cable company that bought a mobile firm. It formed in 2007 after NTL and Telewest merged.
- Dole plcDole plc is an Irish-American farming company with 38,500 full-time and seasonal employees. Together they supply some 300 products to customers in 75 countries. In 2021 the company reported revenues of $6.5 billion. Most people meet it as…