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Gordon Todd Skinner, who was known by his friends as Todd, [1] grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.His biological father was Gordon H. Skinner, a chiropractor. Skinner's mother was a businesswoman named Katherine Magrini, who ran a spring manufacturer, Gardner Springs Company [2] and a candy company, Katherine's Spring Gourmet Chocolates.
In 1970, the Huffy Corporation was founded as an umbrella company to house the Huffy Bicycle division, as well as Huffman Manufacturing Company's emerging sporting goods line. Huffman purchased YLCE (Yorba Linda Cycle Enterprises) and converted that Southern California company to a national service company, assembling bicycles and other ...
Pfizer Inc. (/ ˈ f aɪ z ər / FY-zər) [3] is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer (1824–1906) and his cousin Charles F. Erhart (1821–1891).
Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as The Haloid Photographic Company. [11] It manufactured photographic paper and equipment. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate [12] and dry powder "toner".
The Satyam Computer Services scandal was India's largest corporate fraud until 2010. The founder and directors of India-based outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services, falsified the accounts, inflated the share price, and stole large sums from the company.
The CONMED Corporation is a publicly traded American manufacturer of medical equipment, primarily orthopedic, endoscopy, and general surgical tools. [2] In 2021, orthopedics made up $550 million of its revenue. [ 3 ]
Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco. In December 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk as the co-chairs. $1 billion in total was pledged by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid ...
The deal would allow Amazon to add the MGM library to the Amazon Prime Video catalog, with the studio continuing to operate as a label under the new parent company. [64] The merger was finalized on March 17, 2022, following the expiration of the FTC's review deadline [65] and having cleared the European Commission two days earlier on March 15.