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2014 mergers and acquisitions

  • GameTrailersGameTrailers was shut down on the 8th of February 2016. Most remaining staff then launched Easy Allies.
  • ChryslerChrysler built the rocket that launched Alan Shepard into space. It also nearly went broke making family sedans.
  • Double Helix GamesTwo game studios moved into one Irvine office in 2007 and promised no one would lose a job.
  • ForbesForbes first appeared in 1917 as Forbes: Devoted to Doers and Doings.
  • Rooster TeethRooster Teeth's founders did not expect Red vs. Blue to last past eight episodes. It ran for two decades of shows.
  • Madman EntertainmentMadman Entertainment began as a mail-order catalogue for imported anime.
  • Twitch (service)Google reportedly had a deal to buy Twitch, then Amazon bought it. Amazon paid just under one billion dollars in 2014.
  • M. E. SharpeIn 1958, Myron Emanuel Sharpe started a press to translate Russian scholarship for English readers.
  • Mojang StudiosMojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm, and it makes Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. As of 2021 the studio employed about 600 people, with further offices in London, Shanghai, Tokyo and…
  • Tim HortonsTim Hortons, called Tim's, Timmies or Timmy's by the people who line up at its counters, now runs 6,043 restaurants in 14 countries. Its headquarters are in Toronto. The menu leans on coffee, donuts, sandwiches and breakfast egg muffins,…
  • ChiquitaChiquita began with a ship's captain named Lorenzo Dow Baker and a gamble in Jamaica in 1870. Baker bought 160 bunches of bananas there. Eleven days later he resold them in Jersey City. That single cargo is where the company's long…
  • Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind began with an AI learning to play Breakout. It later shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • Kadokawa CorporationKadokawa began in 1945 as a small postwar book publisher. It now owns anime studios, game makers and a streaming site.
  • Chuck E. CheeseChuck E. Cheese, the American pizza and arcade chain, owes its name to a costume that turned out to be the wrong animal. While his first animatronic show was being assembled, Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, discovered that the outfit…
  • FromSoftwareFromSoftware spent nearly a decade making office software before its first game. King's Field then changed the company.

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