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On February 19, 2007, Vulcan announced that it would buy stone and cement producer Florida Rock Industries for $4.7 billion. [6] [7] Vulcan completed the acquisition of Florida Rock on November 16, 2007. [8] In March 2007, Vulcan announced that it had been named to Fortune Magazine's list of Most Admired Companies for the sixth time. The ...
Vale Group LLC, doing business as Vulcan Real Estate, is an American private holding company based in Seattle, Washington. [4] The company was founded as Vulcan Inc. in 1986 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen [5] to establish and oversee the family's diverse business activities and philanthropic endeavors.
Vulcan Energy was founded in 2018 by geologists Dr. Francis Wedin, who now acts as managing director and CEO, and Dr. Horst Kreuter.Wedin started his career in the Australian mining industry and began exploring ways to mine lithium using environmentally friendly geothermal resources in 2014. [4]
Vulkan targets high-performance real-time 3D-graphics applications, such as video games and interactive media, and highly parallelized computing.Vulkan is intended to offer higher performance and more efficient CPU and GPU usage compared to the older OpenGL and Direct3D 11 APIs.
Vulcan would promote its aircraft by touring from city to city golf courses having promoter Benny Martinez parachute with a set of Vulcan golf clubs. [3] Martinez eventually broke his leg and Vulcan's chief pilot Pat Love died a year later in a crash. [4] The Doyle Brothers left the company after Wilson was passed over for plant manager.
Vulcan Software was an independent computer games company founded in 1994 in the UK. Vulcan started creating software for the Amiga computer systems. Its first commercial game was Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity , which was notable for being the first ever Amiga speech adventure game .
Vulcan Capital is an investment arm of Allen's Seattle-based Vulcan Inc., which has managed his personal fortune. In 2013, Allen opened a new Vulcan Capital office in Palo Alto, California , to focus on making new investments in emerging technology and internet companies.
The California Vulcans football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Pennsylvania Western University California (known before July 2022 as California University of Pennsylvania), located in California, Pennsylvania.