Click on title above to watch the video OR Copy-paste the URL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc Steve Jobs (1955-2011), co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. Transcript of [...]
1955: Stephen Paul born on February 24 in San Francisco, CA, soon to be adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. 1960: The Jobs family moves to Palo Alto, heart of the growing Silicon Valley. 1969: Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak. 1972: Steve and Woz build and sell illegally blue boxes to Berkeley students. 1972: Jobs enrolls in [...]
1971 – Starbucks Coffee was started by three businessmen Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl in Seattle, Washington. While attending school in San Francisco, Baldwin discovered Peet’s Coffee in Berkeley and introduced his roommate, Gordon Bowker to Peet’s Coffee. Bowker stumbled upon another great store in Vancouver, Canada which sold Murchie’s coffee. Bowker had [...]
1976 – Sunil Mittal founded the Bharti Group 1983 – He got into an agreement with Siemens to manufacture push-button telephones for the Indian market. 1986 – Incorporated Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL) and his company became the first in India to offer push-button telephones, establishing the basis of Bharti Enterprises. 1995 – Incorporated the cellular [...]
The invention in the 1880s of the high-speed engine and the automobile enabled Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz – independently of one another – to lay the foundations for the motorization of road transport. October 1883 – In Mannheim, Benz founded the firm Benz & Cie. November 1890- Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) was formed. 1897 – Austrian [...]
1945 - Wipro was founded by M.H.Hasham Premji in Amalner, Maharashtra, producing Sunflower Vanaspati Oil and Soaps. The company was called Western India Products Limited. Over the years, Wipro diversified into several unrelated businesses on its own and through subsidiaries. These industries included soaps, wax and tin containers. 1966 - Hasham Premji passed away, and was succeeded [...]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) started in 1968. It was earlier called Tata Computer Centre. Its main business was to provide computer services to other Tata group companies. Its first general manager was F C Kohli and its first chairman was J. R. D. Tata. TCS’ first assignment was to provide punched card services to a [...]
Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981 by: N.R Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S.D. Shibulal, K Dinesh, Ashok Arora and N.S. Raghavan. The founders started the company with a capital of Rs. 10,000. Its registered office was in Pune. It was listed in Bombay Stock Exchange in 1993. Since listing until the year [...]
Acceleration – It is a standard clause in a mortgage instrument that permits the lender to demand the full payment of principal from borrower upon default of the obligation Account History– It is nothing but the payment history of an account over a specified period of time, including the times that account was past due [...]
1806 William Colgate starts a starch, soap and candle business on Dutch Street in New York City. 1820 Colgate establishes a starch factory in Jersey City, New Jersey. 1857 Upon the death of founder William Colgate, the company is reorganized as Colgate & Company under the management of Samuel Colgate, his son. 1864 B.J. Johnson [...]
