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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]
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony.
The former MapQuest logo was phased out as part of a website redesign unveiled on July 14, 2010. MapQuest's origins date to 1967 with the founding of Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, which moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1969.
The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Northumberland, and later Bedford counties, Westmoreland County was founded on February 26, 1773, and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area ...
Lawrence County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 86,070. [1] The county seat and largest city is New Castle. [2]The county was created on March 20, 1849, from parts of Beaver and Mercer counties.