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IBM's subsidiary in Belgium was named Watson Belge. The director was Emile Genon, formerly of Groupe Bull, a competing punch-card firm.When the US entered the World War II in 1941, the company ownership was taken by the Nazi government and given to a custodian, H. Gabrecht, who also custodied the Netherlands subsidiary.
Celestica was incorporated in 1994 as a subsidiary of IBM. [3] In 1996, it was sold off to Onex Corporation. In April 2001, the company announced it was laying off 3,000 people, about 10% of its workforce, due to the dot-com crash. [4] Losses mounted and on 29 January 2004 the company announced that company CEO Eugene Polistuk would be retiring.
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, [6] is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries. [7] [8] It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Following its purchase of 10.1% stake in 2008 for $19.3 million [8] and another 11.2% stake for RM70.9 million in 2010, [9] SEEK Limited, the Australian internet job recruitment company made a complete takeover in 2014 for RM 1.73 billion [10] [11] together with co-investors, News Corp, Tiger Global and Macquarie Capital.
Penang Shipbuilding and Construction - Naval Dockyard Sdn Bhd (PSC-ND), was a division of the Penang Shipbuilding and Construction Industries Bhd (PCSI), a Malaysian Government-Linked Company (GLC), based in Lumut, Perak, Malaysia. The company's primary role was to maintain the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) fleet and the Lumut Naval Dockyard.
Like in the rest of Malaysia, Malay is currently Penang's official language. The Malays and Jawi Peranakans in the city often use Bahasa Tanjong, a variant of the Kedah Malay dialect that is slightly modified to suit the conditions of a cosmopolitan society. [156] Meanwhile, the Tamils form the bulk of George Town's Indian community. [38]
The SSM was formed in 2002 under the Companies Commission of Malaysia Act 2001, assuming the functions of the Registrar of Companies and Registry of Business. [1] The main purpose of SSM is to serve as an agency to incorporate companies and register businesses as well as to provide company and business information to the public.
Berjaya Corporation Berhad (MYX: 3395; [2] formerly known as Berjaya Group Berhad, Inter-Pacific Industrial Group Berhad and Raleigh Berhad) is a Malaysian-based corporation which controls a wide array of businesses, including consumer marketing, property development and investment, as well as hotels, resorts and recreation development.