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https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/8122-oldest-companies-in-america.html
This perfume and soap company was started by Dr. William Hunter as an apothecary shop in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1752. Hunter served his distinguished clientele living in the nearby "cottages," supplying their "medicinals" as well as their perfumes and personal care products, according to the company's website. -
https://d23.com/disney-history/
He had made a cartoon in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice’s Wonderland, and he decided that he could use it as his “pilot” film to sell a series of these “Alice Comedies” to a distributor. Soon after arriving in California, he was successful. A distributor in New York, M. J. Winkler, contracted to distribute the “Alice Comedies” on October 16, 1923, and this date became the start of the Disney company. -
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/
In 1946, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the predecessor of Sony)
started as a small company with capital of just 190,000 yen and approximately 20 employees. -
https://www.strategy-business.com/feature/00254?gko=88288
In the U.S., the 1960s marked the beginning of monumental legislative bills on issues such as affirmative action, consumer rights that addressed product safety, product labeling, and advertising, worker safety, and environmental regulations on air, water, and land pollution. -
https://www.strategy-business.com/feature/00254?gko=88288
By 1964, an entirely new, large, and professional management class had begun moving into corner offices. The executive suite was now filled with a variety of top leaders in finance, planning aka strategy, operations, manufacturing, and sales, all associated with their own sometimes huge support staffs. -
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/nokia/nokia-3310/19848/history-mobile-phones-1973-2008-handsets-made-it-all-happen
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. -
https://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digital-camera-by-kodak-and-steve-sasson/
It was created in December 1975 by an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson, now regarded as the inventor of the digital camera -
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Microsoft-Corporation
Microsoft Corporation, leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. The company also publishes books and multimedia titles, produces its own line of hybrid tablet computers, offers e-mail services, and sells electronic game systems, computer peripherals (input/output devices), and portable media players. It has sales offices throughout the world. -
https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/25/a-look-at-apples-ceos-from-1977-to-2011/
Michael Scott came to Apple from National Semiconductor after being persuaded by Apple’s third employee Mike Markkula (more on him later) to take the position as the company’s first CEO as both Steve Jobs and Steve Woziak were seen to be too inexperienced for the role. -
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Who-invented-the-laptop-and-which-company-first-produced-it-commercially/articleshow/991598.cms
In 1988, Compaq Computer launched the first laptop PC with VGA graphics, Compaq SLT/286. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat
Snap Inc. is an American technology and camera company, founded on September 16, 2011, by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy and based in Venice, California. -
https://www.samsung.com/sa_en/offer/TV_History/
Samsung was the first company in the world to think and build smart tvs, they set a bar to help spread advanced technology. -
http://www.pandora.com/about
Pandora is the world’s most powerful and popular music app in the world, they used todays advanced technology to help spread music used around the world into 1 app. -
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/epic-games-company-behind-fortnite-was-founded-by-a-college-kid.html
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has come a long way from designing video games in his parents' house as a kid the company he founded is making some of the world's most popular video games, from the "Gears of War" franchise to "Fortnite."
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