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Companies involved in the Gaza war

  • MicrosoftBill Gates claimed he had a working BASIC program before he had written any of it.
  • GoogleGoogle's name is a misspelling of googol, a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The search engine was first nicknamed BackRub.
  • Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin Corporation once supplied NASA with software built around US Customary force units, when metric units were expected. The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost. The spacecraft had cost $193 million to develop, and its loss came to…
  • Meta PlatformsMark Zuckerberg announced on October 28, 2021 that Facebook was changing its name to Meta Platforms.
  • Amazon (company)Amazon started in a converted garage under the name Cadabra. Jeff Bezos began the online bookstore there in 1994.
  • NvidiaNvidia began in a Denny's diner booth in East San Jose. Three engineers met there in late 1992 to plan it.
  • BlackRockBlackRock began with one trader's $90 million loss. Larry Fink lost it at First Boston, then built a firm in 1988.
  • General DynamicsGeneral Dynamics traces back to a single $150,000 submarine the U.S. Navy bought in 1900.
  • Boston Consulting GroupBoston Consulting Group began as a small advisory department inside a bank. Bruce Henderson started it in 1963.
  • StarlinkStarlink now counts more than 10,020 satellites in low Earth orbit, and that fleet makes up 65% of every active satellite circling the planet. The network belongs to SpaceX, the American aerospace company, and it serves customers in around…
  • PalantirPalantir Technologies takes its name from a "seeing stone" in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a crystal orb through which distant events could be observed, and power exercised. Peter Thiel chose that name deliberately in 2003, when he and…

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