Depending on jurisdiction, the term "company" may or may not be synonymous withcorporation,partnership, firm andsociety. Companies are governed bycompany law, which is also known as corporate law in some jurisdictions. Incorporated companies are created by and registered with thestate, whereasunincorporated companies are not.
When a company closes, it may need to beliquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies known ascorporate groups, collections of parent and subsidiary corporations. (Full article...)
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TheWistarburg Glass Works (sometimes spelledWistarburgh Glass Works; also known as theUnited Glass Company) was the first successful glass factory andjoint-venture enterprise in theThirteen Colonies.Caspar Wistar founded the glass works company in 1739. He began by recruiting experienced glass artisans from Europe, and built homes for the workers along with a mansion for the factory's foreman. Wistar also had acompany store built near the factory.
The village that developed around the factory adopted Wistar's name, and became known as Wistarburg. The village was inSalem County, New Jersey, in the township ofAlloway. Wistar's factory produced thousands of glass bottles per year, as well aswindow glass. Wistar was a friend ofBenjamin Franklin, and made glass globes for Franklin's electricity-producing machines used for scientific research. Wistar's son inherited the business and his son, Wistar's grandson, eventually gained control of the company, but owing to his mismanagement it closed. (Full article...)
Image 930 St Mary Axe,London, widely known by the nickname "The Gherkin", and occasionally as a variant on The Swiss Re Tower, after its previous owner and principal occupier.Swiss Re is the world’s second-largestreinsurance company.
Image 11The Intel 80486DX2 is aCPU produced byIntel Corporation that was introduced in 1992. Intel is the world's second largestsemiconductor company and the inventor of thex86 series of microprocessors.
Corporate law (also known ascompany law orenterprise law) is the body oflaw governing therights, relations, and conduct ofpersons,companies,organizations, andbusinesses. The term refers to the legal practice of law relating tocorporations, or to the theory of corporations. Corporate law often describes the law relating to matters which derive directly from the life-cycle of a corporation. It thus encompasses theformation, funding, governance, anddeath of a corporation.
While the minute nature of corporate governance as personified byshare ownership,capital market, andbusiness culture rules differ, similar legal characteristics and legal problems exist across many jurisdictions. Corporate law regulates how corporations,investors,shareholders,directors, employees,creditors, and otherstakeholders such asconsumers, thecommunity, and theenvironment interact with one another. Whereas the terms company law or business law may be colloquially used interchangeably with corporate law, the term business law in fact refers to wider concepts ofcommercial law, which is the law governing commercial and business-related activities. In some cases, this may include matters relating tocorporate governance orfinancial law. (Full article...)
NeXT partnered withSun Microsystems to create aprogramming environment calledOpenStep, which decoupled theNeXTSTEP operating system's application layer to host it on third-party operating systems. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from the hardware industry to concentrate on marketingOPENSTEP for Mach, its own OpenStep implementation for several other computer vendors. NeXT developedWebObjects, one of the first enterpriseweb frameworks, and although its market appeal was limited by its high price ofUS$50,000 (equivalent to $103,000 in 2024), it is a prominent early example ofdynamic web pages rather thanstatic content. (Full article...)
Lenovo originated as an offshoot of astate-owned research institute. Then known as Legend and distributing foreign IT products, co-founderLiu Chuanzhi incorporated Legend inHong Kong in an attempt to raise capital and was successfully permitted to build computers in China, and were helped by the AmericanAST Research. Legend listed on theHong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994 and became the largest PC manufacturer in China and eventually in Asia; they were also domestic distributors forHP printers,Toshiba laptops, and others. After the company rebranded itself to Lenovo, it merged withIBM's PC business which produced itsThinkPad line in 2005, after which it rapidly expanded abroad. In 2013, Lenovo became theworld's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales for the first time, a position it still holds as of 2024.
... thatLinda Anne Hutchison performed as a leading soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including during its first visit to continental Europe since the 1880s?
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