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Brian L. Roberts. Comcast is described as a family business. [20] Brian L. Roberts, its chairman and CEO, is the son of founder Ralph J. Roberts (1920–2015). Roberts owns or controls about 1% of all Comcast shares but all of the Class B supervoting shares, giving him an "undilutable 33% voting power over the company". [21]
The organization was founded in 1935 as the Peninsular Telephone Employees Credit Union to serve the employees of Peninsular Telephone Company. After Peninsular became part of GTE (since merged with Verizon ), the credit union was renamed GTE Federal Credit Union in 1958. [ 3 ]
The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is a system of "managed competition" through which employee health benefits are provided to civilian government employees and annuitants of the United States government. The government contributes 72% of the weighted average premium of all plans, not to exceed 75% of the premium for any one ...
This resulted in layoffs of about 50 employees, including presenters David Eades, Joanna Gosling, and Tim Willcox. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Despite the changes, the international feed of BBC News – which continues to be distributed by BBC Studios [ 8 ] – still opts out of programmes that are specific to UK audiences, such as simulcasts of BBC ...
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [note 1] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
Rural Cellular was a telecommunications company that had run the Unicel mobile network. It operated in Midwest, Northeast, Northwest and the Southern regions of the United States and was bought by Verizon Wireless on January 25, 2009, for approximately $2.67 billion in cash and assumed debt.
CompuServe was initiated during 1969 as Compu-Serv Network, Inc. [a] in Columbus, Ohio, as a subsidiary of Golden United Life Insurance. [3]Though Golden United founder Harry Gard Sr.'s son-in-law Jeffrey Wilkins is widely miscredited as the first president of CompuServe, its first president was actually John R. Goltz. [4]
Paycheck is a 2003 American science fiction action film directed by John Woo.Written by Dean Georgaris, it is based on the 1953 short story "Paycheck" by Philip K. Dick.The film stars Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti, Michael C. Hall, Joe Morton, and Colm Feore.