Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Micro Focus logo circa 1985. Micro Focus was founded by Brian Reynolds in Notting Hill in 1976. [3] [4] In 1981, it became the first company to win the Queen's Award for Industry purely for developing a software product.
Unisys was the first to develop a server architecture that supported four operating environments to run simultaneously on the same computer system in a single virtualized partition. [43] In 2013, Unisys won a $650 million Enterprise Computing Center Support contract to support the computer systems used by the Internal Revenue Service. [44]
Chart of U.S. bank mergers. This 2012 chart shows some of the mergers noted above. Solid arrows point from the acquiring bank to the acquired one. The lines are labeled with the year of the deal and color-coded from blue (older) to red (newer). Dotted arrows point to the final merged entity.
John J. Mack, then- president of Morgan Stanley, waves his Discover credit card at a press conference in New York, February 5, held to announce the $10.2 billion merger of Dean Witter, Discover ...
As of last December, Capital One is listed as the ninth largest U.S. bank, with consolidated assets of $475.6 billion, while Discover Bank is ranked at 27 with assets of $149.4 billion, according ...
A horizontal merger combines direct competitors in the same products and markets, while a vertical merger combines suppliers and the company or customers and the company. Pac-Man Defense A strategy of survival in the takeover game, named after a popular game in the US in the early 1980s, in which a character which does not swallow its opponents ...
CompuCom was formed in 1987 by Safeguard Scientifics, a venture capital company. It was started when predecessor Machine Vision International acquired two computer-focused technology companies, Tri-Star Data Systems and Office Automation, under the umbrella of Safeguard Scientifics, which named the merged company CompuCom.
The tug of war between BlackRock and FDIC is the latest example of rising D.C. scrutiny of BlackRock, which oversees $11 trillion in assets. For years, the financial giant has been a target of GOP ...