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2025 mergers and acquisitions
- Paramount GlobalParamount Global closed its doors on the 7th of August 2025, absorbed into a new entity called New Paramount through a merger that had taken more than a year…
- KotakuKotaku launched in October 2004 as a small corner of the Gawker Media network, aimed at young men and named after a Japanese portmanteau of the word otaku…
- Polygon (website)Polygon launched on the 24th of October 2012, with a pitch that was unusual for the internet: slow down, go long, and tell the story behind the game.
- Boston CelticsThe Boston Celtics were formed on the 6th of June 1946, by Walter A. Brown, the president of Boston Garden-Arena Corporation.
- DirecTVOn the 17th of June 1994, the first direct broadcast satellite service went live in the United States. Hughes Electronics had spent years developing the…
- U.S. SteelU.S. Steel was created in a single transaction in 1901, when J. P. Morgan merged Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel, and National Steel for $492 million.
- Skydance MediaSkydance Media took its name from a flying technique. David Ellison, a licensed pilot, drew inspiration from aerobatics called "skydancing" when he founded…
- GKIDSGKIDS, Inc. walked into the Academy Awards in 2010 with a French film about two princes on a quest, and the animation world has never quite looked at New…
- Quartz (publication)Quartz, the American business news website, was born in New York City on the 24th of September 2012 with a clear ambition: to serve "business people in the…
- PC WorldPC World landed on newsstands in March 1983, just months after being announced at the COMDEX trade show in November 1982.