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Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq

  • Paramount GlobalThe year 1912 marked the founding of Famous Players Film Company, which would eventually evolve into Paramount Pictures.
  • Houghton Mifflin HarcourtIn 1832, William Ticknor and John Allen purchased a bookselling business in Boston and began publishing themselves. James T.
  • 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…
  • YahooIn January 1994, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University named Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website called Jerry and…
  • TheStreetJim Cramer and Marty Peretz launched TheStreet in 1996 as a financial news website. The company went public in May 1999 under the leadership of CEO Kevin…
  • ReutersPaul Julius Reuter established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange in 1851. He had previously developed a prototype service in Aachen using…
  • Virgin MediaVirgin Media was born on the 8th of February 2007, not from a single founding idea, but from the collision of two bruised giants and a mobile company none of…
  • ZyngaMark Pincus launched Zynga in April 2007 under the name Presidio Media. The company changed its name to Zynga in July 2007, adopting a bulldog logo named…