2003 Branding Capital Operations 
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OCTOBER 27, 2019
The operation will carry an enhanced, innovative Payroc brand, offering full-service global merchant acquirer services and payments processing in 46 countries. Private equity firm Parthenon Capital sponsored the merger. “We NXGEN and Payscape merged in May in a deal also backed by Parthenon Capital.
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MAY 24, 2018
We started as a family-owned candy company back in 1847, [and] we’re thrilled to work with a fourth-generation candy company that brings new stewardship to our brands,” Necco Chief Executive Michael McGee told the Globe. “I Spangler was among two other bidders: Round Hill Capital LLC and Gordon Brothers. Bidding opened at $15.25
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OCTOBER 29, 2018
For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing. Date: March 20, 2003.
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AUGUST 21, 2017
That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. It’s also where Airbnb , quite literally, got its start.
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JUNE 10, 2019
In 2003, iTunes for Windows arrived in October 2003, allowing non-Mac users, the vast majority of the computing world, to buy music from Apple and sync it to an iPod for the first time. Uber said two big goodbyes to its chief operating and marketing officers, though the circumstances were bit different.
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JULY 18, 2016
The big daddy of the video rental industry at the time was Blockbuster , and it operated more than 4,500 such outlets. A year and $2 million in seed capital later, Hastings and a partner founded Netflix. By June 2003, DVD rentals overtook VHS rentals. So, too, are the cable operators. Fifteen percent of U.S.
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MARCH 6, 2019
After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.
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