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Zip2 Corp. [2] was a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. [3] The company was founded in Palo Alto, California as Global Link Information Network, Inc. on November 9, 1995, [ 4 ] by Greg Kouri and brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk.
In 1995, Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded web software company Zip2 with funds borrowed from Musk's father. [55] [25] They housed the venture at a small rented office in Palo Alto. [56] The company developed and marketed an Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry, with maps, directions, and yellow pages. [57]
He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University, and with his brother Kimbal co-founded the software company Zip2, that was later acquired by Compaq in 1999. That same year, Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank, that later formed PayPal. In 2002, Musk acquired U.S. citizenship, and eBay acquired PayPal.
Musk beetle, a Eurasian species of longhorn beetle belonging to the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribe Callichromatini; Musk deer, of the species that make up Moschus; Musk duck, a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia
The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now Pennsylvania. In 1681, Pennsylvania became an English colony when William Penn received a royal deed from King Charles II of England .
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Musk's first venture was a residential painting business with College Pro Painters in 1994, the same year he and his elder brother, Elon, started their second company, Zip2. Zip2 was an online city guide that provided content for the new online versions of The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers.
The Religious Society of Free Quakers founded; 1783 June 20: Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783; June 22: Congress flees to Princeton, New Jersey, due to the Pennsylvania Munity; 1784 Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum founded [11] Dock Street laid out. [8] 1785 – Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture instituted [8] 1786 Labor ...