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Level 3 Communications, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. [4] It ultimately became a part of CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), where Level 3 President and CEO Jeff Storey was installed as Chief Operating Officer, becoming CEO of CenturyLink one year later in a prearranged succession plan.
Deluxe Corporation was founded as Deluxe Check Printers in Saint Paul, Minnesota by William Roy (W. R.) Hotchkiss, [6] after Hotchkiss secured a $300 loan. [7] [8] Hotchkiss was the creator of speed-enhancing inventions, including the Hotchkiss Imprinting Press (patented in 1925), a two-way perforator, and the Hotchkiss Lithograph Press (patented in 1928).
In June 1996, it became the youngest company to enter the FTSE 100, valued at £2.4 billion. In October 1999, the German conglomerate Mannesmann AG acquired Orange for a price equivalent to €7,900 per customer, i.e. US$33 billion. [17] [18] [19] Mannesmann's acquisition of Orange triggered Vodafone to make a hostile takeover bid for Mannesmann.
Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco. Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman. It ...
A year after Yahoo was identified by the American whistleblower Edward Snowden as a frequent target for state-sponsored hackers in 2013, the company hired a dedicated chief information security officer, Alex Stamos. While Stamos' hiring was praised by technology experts as showing Yahoo's commitment towards better security, Yahoo CEO Marissa ...
Ameritech logo, 1999–2001. In May 1998, Ameritech announced its intent to merge with SBC Communications.This brought great concern to Federal and state regulators, who in turn didn't approve the merger until SBC and Ameritech agreed to several conditions to ensure adequate competition. [3]
The Charles Schwab Corporation [2] is an American multinational financial services company. It offers banking , commercial banking , investing and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients.
Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct.