Citibank, founded in 1812, used to be known as the City Bank of New York, which was later changed to the First National City Bank of New ...

Founded in 1851, the Reuters news agency is one of the oldest players in this industry, and its presence is felt in almost every corner o...

The company was founded in 1920, in Wilmslow,Manchester, as Humphrey Brothers Clothing; in 1924, the company changed its name to Umbro, ...

In July of 1932, the NFL awarded a team to the city of Boston. The ownership group for the new franchise was headed by a man with little ...

Visa's history begins in 1958, when Bank of America initiated its BankAmericard program in Fresno, Calif. Originally, the company on...

Wal-Mart is a global discount retailer headquartered in Bentonville, a small city in Arkansas, USA. Wal-Mart is the largest public corpor...

In 1961, a limited number of organizations around the world – such as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural ...

Jimmy Wales was running a website called Nupedia which requested encyclopedia articles from academics, then took the articles to fellow ...

Microsoft's Xbox is a newer name in the video game console market. Critics of the Xbox thought that the console would never compare t...

Yahoo which is officially spelled with an exclamation mark, is a world famous American company that runs a popular website where people ...

Airbus S.A.S. is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Toulouse, France, and with signific...

Boeing’s origin dates to 1916 when the American timber merchant William E. Boeing founded Aero Products Company shortly after he and U.S....