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Acquisitions by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo: This is a timeline of web 2.0 acquisitions by the big three: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. The original idea came from: http://www.shmula.com/blog/timelines /google-microsoft-yahoo/g-y-m.htm More details to the acquisitions have been added based on public sources.

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McDonald's: McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, breakfasts and soft drinks. More recently, it also offers salads, fruit, snack wraps, and carrot sticks. The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by siblings...

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Google: Company History and Milestones: This is a timeline of Google's company milestones and impressive growth. Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers ...

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Boeing: The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William E. Boeing. Its international headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Boeing is the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, orders and deliveries, and the second-largest aerospace and defense co...

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Rise & Fall Of ENRON: Enron began as the Northern Natural Gas Company, which was formed in 1931 in Omaha, Nebraska. It was reorganized in 1979 as the leading subsidiary of a holding company, InterNorth. In 1985, it bought the smaller Houston Natural Gas and changed its name to Enron in the process.[2] The merged compa...

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KFC: KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, known mainly for its fried chicken. KFC has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. since 2002. The company was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, with the abbreviate...

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History of General Electric: This timeline traces the growth of GE as an electric company to the successful conglomerate it is today. The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. In terms of market capitalization, G.E. i...

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Toyota: Toyota Motor Corporation or Toyota for short, is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer. The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's (Sakichi Toyoda) company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industri...

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Biography of Michael Moore: [Picture: Michael Francis Moore] Michael Francis Moore is an American author and Academy Award-winning director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine, three of the top five highest-grossing documentaries of all time. Moore is a self-described liberal who has critic...

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Halliburton’s History: Halliburton Energy Services is a United States based multinational corporation with operations in over 120 countries. It has been at the forefront of several media and political controversies in relation to its work for the U.S. Government, its political ties, and its corporate ethics. Halliburto...

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