Curated category
2014 mergers and acquisitions
- GameTrailersGeoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones launched GameTrailers in 2002 as a small startup focused on video game trailers and gameplay footage.
- ChryslerWalter Chrysler arrived at the ailing Maxwell-Chalmers company in the early 1920s. He had been hired to overhaul the troubled operations after a similar…
- Double Helix GamesThe year was 2006 when Foundation 9 Entertainment purchased Shiny Entertainment. This acquisition came with a specific condition requiring the new studio to…
- ForbesOn the 15th of September 1917, B. C. Forbes and his partner Walter Drey launched a new publication in New York City. The magazine carried the original title…
- Rooster TeethIn April 2003, six University of Texas alumni launched a website called drunkgamers.com from their Austin office. Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey…
- Madman EntertainmentTim Anderson and Paul Wiegard opened Madman Entertainment in 1996. They started as a mail order business selling imported anime titles on VHS tapes.
- Twitch (service)In June 2011, a new website called TwitchTV launched in public beta as a dedicated spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv.
- M. E. SharpeMyron Emanuel Sharpe opened the doors to his new publishing house in 1958. The company bore the name M. E. Sharpe, Inc., though it began as International…
- Google DeepMindDemis Hassabis and Shane Legg met at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London in 2010. They established DeepMind Technologies…