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2019 mergers and acquisitions
- Inverse (website)Inverse began in 2015, founded by Dave Nemetz, who had co-founded Bleacher Report. He set out to build a magazine for young readers curious about technology…
- 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 HoldingLeonine Holding's earliest known production, made in 1970, adapted Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf for German television.
- 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 ManagementOaktree Capital Management was born in 1995 when a tight-knit group of financiers walked away from the TCW Group and took their clients with them.
- 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…