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Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq

  • Paramount GlobalParamount Global paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump.
  • Houghton Mifflin HarcourtHoughton Mifflin turned down Julia Child's French cookbook. Alfred A. Knopf published it in 1961 instead.
  • DirecTVDirecTV, headquartered in El Segundo, California, began broadcasting on the 17th of June 1994. By the end of that year's count it had 320,000 subscribers. Twenty years later, in 2014, the figure stood at 20,265,000. That is a lot of…
  • PopeyesAl Copeland said he left the apostrophe out of Popeyes because he was "too poor" to afford one. He meant it as a joke, and the joke stuck to a chain that now counts 5,413 restaurants across 51 countries and territories. Popeyes Louisiana…
  • YahooIn 2002, Yahoo offered $3 billion to buy Google, and Google's leaders said no. Google reportedly wanted $5 billion.
  • ActivisionActivision began with an insult. According to programmer Larry Kaplan, Atari chief Ray Kassar, whose earlier job was at a textile company, called four of his best game designers "towel designers". Kassar also claimed that "anybody can do a…
  • TheStreetTheStreet, a financial news website, was worth $1.7 billion at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
  • ReutersReuters began with homing pigeons carrying financial prices. The agency was founded in London in 1851.
  • Whole Foods MarketWhole Foods Market began in 1978 as a vegetarian shop called SaferWay, a spoof of the name Safeway, in Austin, Texas. John Mackey and Renee Lawson paid for it with $45,000 borrowed from family and friends. Soon afterward, the two were…
  • Virgin MediaVirgin Media began as a cable company that bought a mobile firm. It formed in 2007 after NTL and Telewest merged.
  • ZyngaZynga, named after a bulldog, hit ten million daily players in six weeks.

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