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2019 mergers and acquisitions

  • Inverse (website)Dave Nemetz launched Inverse in 2015 as an online magazine focused on technology, science, and culture. The site began operations with seed funding and…
  • Crunchyroll Store AustraliaTim Anderson and Paul Wiegard established Madman Entertainment in 1996 as a mail order business. They targeted the Australian market with imported anime…
  • Game (retailer)Game, the international video game retailer, was founded in April 1990 by Peter Wickins and Neil Taylor, who saw opportunity in the growing market for…
  • MyspaceMyspace launched on the 1st of August, 2003, and within a few years became the most visited website in the United States, beating out Yahoo Mail and Google…
  • Sports IllustratedSports Illustrated arrived on newsstands on the 9th of August, 1954, at a moment when many serious journalists believed sports was beneath their craft.
  • TumblrTumblr launched in February 2007, and within two weeks it had drawn 75,000 users to a platform that barely existed. David Karp had not set out to build a…
  • NMENME was bought for £1,000, just fifteen minutes before it was due to close for good. That was 1952, when a London music promoter named Maurice Kinn spotted a…
  • Leonine HoldingOn the 27th of April 1970, author and producer Walter Ulbrich established Tele München Group in Munich. The company began with a singular mission to create…
  • WABC (AM)WABC, broadcasting at 770 kHz from New York City, began its life on a factory rooftop in Newark, New Jersey, in October 1921 - accessible only by ladder.
  • TheStreetTheStreet launched in 1996 at the precise moment the internet was beginning to look like the future of money. Jim Cramer, then a hedge fund manager with a…
  • New York (magazine)New York magazine was born twice. Its first life began in 1963, not as a standalone publication, but as the Sunday supplement of the New York Herald Tribune.
  • Oaktree Capital ManagementIn 1995, a group of former TCW Group principals established Oaktree Capital Management in Los Angeles. Within three months of that founding, more than 30 TCW…
  • HamleysWilliam Hamley opened a toy shop called Noah's Ark at No. 231 High Holborn, London, in 1760. The business remained within the family for over a century…