Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
History 1983–1991: early years. AOL began in 1983, as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (CVC), founded by William von Meister.Its sole product was an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console, after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Bros. Subscribers bought a modem from the company for $49.95 and paid a one ...
The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ( CGT, and commonly named " Transat "), typically known overseas as the French Line, was a French shipping company. Established in 1855 by the brothers Émile and Issac Péreire under the name Compagnie Générale Maritime, the company was entrusted by the French government to transport mails to North ...
The Soo Line Railroad and the Delaware and Hudson Railway, CPKC's other major subsidiary (before the 2008 DM&E acquisition), presently do business as the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). Most equipment has been repainted into the CP scheme, but the U.S. Surface Transportation Board groups all of the company's U.S. subsidiaries under the Soo Line ...
Google LLC The Google logo used since 2015 Google's headquarters, the Googleplex Formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017) Company type Subsidiary Traded as NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG Industry Internet Cloud computing Computer software Computer hardware Artificial intelligence Advertising Founded September 4, 1998 ; 25 years ago (1998-09-04) [a] in Menlo Park, California, United States Founders Larry Page ...
Line officer. In the United States Armed Forces, a line officer or officer of the line is a U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps commissioned officer or warrant officer who exercises general command authority and is eligible for operational command positions, as opposed to officers who normally exercise command authority only within a Navy Staff ...
The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from Epping, Essex, in the north-east to Ealing Broadway and West Ruislip in west London. Printed in red on the Tube map, the line serves 49 stations over 46 miles (74 km), making it the longest line on the Underground. [3] It is one of only two lines on the ...
Florida Georgia Line was an American country music duo founded in 2010 by vocalists and songwriters Tyler Hubbard of Georgia and Brian Kelley of Florida.Their 2012 debut single "Cruise" broke two major sales records: it was downloaded over seven million times, making it the first country song ever to receive the Diamond certification, and it became the best-selling digital country song, with ...
The Yellow Line was the second of BART's five rapid transit lines to open. Service from Concord to MacArthur began on May 21, 1973. The line was extended to Daly City when the Transbay Tube opened on September 16, 1974. The North Concord/ Martinez, Colma, and Pittsburg/ Bay Point stations were added in 1995–1996.