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In 1961, the company changed its name to Xerox Corporation. [23] Xerox common stock (XRX) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1961 [18] and on the Chicago Stock Exchange in 1990. In 1963, Xerox introduced the Xerox 813, the first desktop plain-paper copier, realizing Carlson's vision of a copier that could fit on anyone's office desk.
PARC entrance. Future Concepts division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) was founded by Darwin Deason and Charles M. Young, both former MTech Communications executives, in 1988. [6] Deason had served as CEO at MTech and decided to launch another data processing firm after a management buyout bid of him and other executives had lost to another bid in 1988.
The original BankAmericard service and Chargex (in Canada) became Visa in the late 1970s. [3] Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda changed its name to 7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda and finally to 7-Up in 1936. Borland changed its name to Inprise in 1998, and back again to Borland in 2001. [4]
The Fortune 500 may include the most powerful CEOs in the world, but just a few of these top executives can look back and reminisce on the very first days of their company. This year there are 22 ...
It described the company's "coined name" as "inspired by the company's expertise in managing transactional relationships between their clients and their constituents". [11] On January 3, 2017, Conduent formally came into existence following its separation from Xerox. [8] At the end of the first quarter of 2017, Carl Icahn owned 9.7% of the ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier. Introduced in 1959 by the Haloid/Xerox company, it revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson 's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical.