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  2. Amazon Fire - Wikipedia

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    Kindle Fire showing components, back cover removed. The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon.Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running on Fire OS, an Android-based operating system.

  3. Ronald Wayne - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is an American retired electronics industry business executive. He co-founded Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) as a partnership with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs on April 1, 1976, providing administrative oversight and documentation for the new venture.

  4. Steve Wozniak - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, Apple went public to instant and significant financial profitability, making Jobs and Wozniak both millionaires. The Apple II's intended successor, the Apple III, released the same year, was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984. According to Wozniak, the Apple III "had 100 percent hardware failures", and that the primary ...

  5. John Sculley - Wikipedia

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    John Sculley III (born April 6, 1939) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups.Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving on October 15, 1993.

  6. Steve Jobs - Wikipedia

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    Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.

  7. Dave Limp - Wikipedia

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    Limp is known to be trusted by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon as well as Blue Origin. [3] Limp decided to join Blue Origin as CEO after Bezos proposed it to him. Although Limp's initial feeling was that he didn't know a lot about rockets, Bezos convinced Limp over a couple of months.

  8. Paul Allen - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, The Wall Street Journal called Allen's South Lake Union investment "unexpectedly lucrative" and one that led to his firm selling a 1,800,000-square-foot (170,000 m 2) office complex to Amazon.com for US$1.16 billion, one of the most expensive office deals ever in Seattle. [73] "It's exceeded my expectations", Allen said of the South ...

  9. History of Amazon - Wikipedia

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    Amazon acquires social reading and book-review site GoodReads. [128] 2013: June: International: Amazon launches in India. [129] [130] 2014: July 25: Product: Amazon launches the Amazon Fire. [131] 2014: August 25: Acquisitions: Amazon announced its intent to acquire the video game streaming website Twitch for $970 million. [132] 2014: October ...