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The Monsanto Company (/ m ɒ n ˈ s æ n t oʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup , a glyphosate -based herbicide , developed in the 1970s.
Monsanto is founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901 as a chemical company, [1] by John Francis Queeny, a 30‑year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. Its first products are commodity food additives, like the artificial sweetener saccharin , caffeine , and vanillin .
John Francis Queeny (August 17, 1859 – March 19, 1933) was an American businessman, known for founding Monsanto Chemical Works (later Monsanto) in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1901, with $5,000. He named the company for his wife, Olga Mendez Monsanto.
Facebook announces that it is shutting down its friends data API, forcing developers to migrate to the Graph API. The company is also allowing for more granular control of data that users may share with apps. [496] [497] [498] 2015: May 12: Product: Facebook launches "Instant Articles" for Publishers. [499]
The Monsanto family is a historical Sephardic Jewish merchant and banking business [1] who played a significant role in founding the Jewish community in Colonial ...
David Albert Friedberg (born June 6, 1980 [1]) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. [2] He founded and was chief executive of The Climate Corporation, whose $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013 made it the first unicorn in the emerging agricultural technology space.
Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [122] through privacy settings. [123] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.