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Companies Flashcards

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Released Amazon Web Service in 2002, an early cloud computing service

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Amazon

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Originally made operating systems for smartphones; later acquired by Google and became a smartphone manufacturing giant

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Android

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Included mass-market personal computers and stylish OS that spurred the popularity of personal computing

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Apple

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Interactive social media site developed by Mark Zuckerberg

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Facebook

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Early web browser giant; known for its SaaS products such as the G Suite

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Google

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Early computer leader that pioneered the development of operating systems

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IBM

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Social media site relying on smartphone camera use; acquired by Facebook

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Instagram

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Founded by Bill Gates; developed Microsoft BASIC and successful OS lines; known for its SaaS products such as the Office suite

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Microsoft

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Manufacturer of Android smartphones

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Samsung

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Crowdsourced encyclopedia invented by Ward Cunningham

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Wikipedia

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Founded by Thomas J. Watson Sr.; became International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924

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Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company

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Created the UNIVAC and BINAC

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Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation

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13
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Acquired EMCC

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Remington Rand

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Acquired Remington Rand to become Sperry Rand

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Sperry Gyroscope

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Failed to make electric computers; bought Electrodata

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Burroughs

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Began in accounting equipment; acquired Computer Research Corporation

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1950 and 1960s computer company; does not manufacture computers today

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1950s and 1960s computer company that was dissolved

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Founded by Kenneth Olsen; pioneered the PDP computer series

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Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

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Began by upgrading PCs and selling computers through the mail

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Dell Computer Corporation

21
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Developed the filing cabinet

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Rand Kardex Company

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Fired Thomas J. Watson Sr.

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National Cash Register COmpany

23
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Acquired by Burroughs

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Electrodata

24
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Acquired by NCR

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Computer Research Corporation

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Modern company that used to be Sperry Rand

26
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1950s computer company that did not compete in the 1960s market

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General Electric

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Computer company that reserve engineered IBM’s BIOS

28
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Sold copies of its reverse engineered IBM BIOS

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Phoenix Technologies

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Founded by Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen; produced Netscape Navigator

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Netscape Communications Corporations

Social Science 23-24 (12 decks)

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