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Ask Jeeves was an early web search service built around asking questions in everyday language. Later renamed Ask.com, it became part of the pre-Google search landscape, survived through reinvention, and officially closed in 2026.
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Lycos
Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that grew out of Carnegie Mellon University research in the 1990s. Its story shows how web search, directories, portals, advertising, acquisitions, and the dot-com boom shaped the pre-Google internet.
AltaVista Search Engine
AltaVista was a pioneering web search engine launched by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1995. It made large-scale full-text web search feel fast and useful before Google, then faded after ownership changes, portal strategy shifts, and stronger competition reshaped internet search.
Ricoh
Ricoh is a Japanese workplace technology company that grew from imaging and office equipment into digital services. It still sells multifunction printers and production printing systems, but its strategy now centers on helping organizations manage documents, devices, workflows, IT services, and workplace transformation.
Epson
Epson is a Japanese precision technology company known for inkjet printers and projectors, but its roots are in watches and compact manufacturing. Its business spans office and home printing, industrial inkjet systems, visual products, microdevices, robotics, sensing, and wearable technologies.
Xerox
Xerox is a document technology company whose name became closely tied to photocopying. Its influence goes beyond copiers: Xerox helped popularize plain-paper copying, built major office-printing businesses, and supported research that shaped personal computing, networking, and graphical user interfaces.
Fujifilm
Fujifilm began as a photographic film company and reinvented itself as a broad technology group spanning healthcare, semiconductor materials, business solutions, graphic communications, and imaging. Its story shows how chemistry, optics, coating, and image-processing expertise can survive a major market shift and find new uses.
Nikon
Nikon is a Japanese optical technology company best known for cameras and Nikkor lenses, but its work also reaches microscopes, retinal imaging, semiconductor and display lithography, industrial metrology, optical components, and metal additive manufacturing. Its history shows how precision optics can move from photography into science, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing.
Canon
Canon is a Japanese technology company known for cameras and lenses, but its business also spans printers, office systems, medical imaging, network cameras, industrial equipment, and semiconductor manufacturing tools. Its story shows how optical engineering can grow into a broad platform for capturing, printing, diagnosing, and manufacturing images.
ADP
ADP is a payroll and human capital management company that helps employers pay workers, manage HR records, administer benefits, track time, handle tax compliance, and analyze workforce data. Its role shows how routine employment tasks become large-scale technology, compliance, data, and service operations.
Intuit
Intuit is a financial technology company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp. Its products help consumers file taxes, track credit and financial choices, while helping small and mid-market businesses manage accounting, payroll, payments, customer relationships, and marketing.
Boeing
Boeing is an American aerospace company that develops, manufactures, and services commercial airplanes, defense products, and space systems. Its history runs from early wood-and-fabric aircraft to jetliners, spacecraft, military platforms, and global services, while its recent story also highlights the importance of safety culture, manufacturing quality, certification, and trust.
Airbus
Airbus is a European aerospace company best known for commercial aircraft, but its business also includes helicopters, defence, space systems, satellites, services, and digital aviation tools. Its story shows how aircraft manufacturing combines engineering, safety regulation, global supply chains, geopolitics, climate pressure, and decades-long product planning.
Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, merchants, banks, fintechs, businesses, and governments. It is best known for card payments, but its network also supports digital wallets, security services, cross-border transactions, commercial payments, and newer forms of money movement.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, merchants, banks, governments, and businesses through payment networks, security tools, data services, and money-movement products. It does not usually issue cards or lend directly; instead, it runs rails and services that help payments work safely at scale.
Panasonic
Panasonic is a Japanese technology and manufacturing group with businesses in appliances, housing equipment, automotive systems, batteries, energy, industrial devices, and connected solutions. It began in 1918 as Matsushita Electric and grew from household electrical products into a global electronics and energy company.
LG Electronics
LG Electronics is a South Korean technology company that makes home appliances, TVs, smart devices, vehicle components, HVAC systems, webOS-based media products, and business solutions. It is moving from a hardware-centered electronics company toward connected services, platforms, subscriptions, and B2B growth.
SK hynix
SK hynix is a South Korean semiconductor company known for memory chips such as DRAM, NAND flash, high-bandwidth memory, and enterprise SSDs. Its products are important because AI accelerators, servers, phones, PCs, and storage systems all depend on fast memory and reliable data movement.
Micron
Micron Technology is a U.S. semiconductor company that designs and manufactures memory and storage products such as DRAM, NAND, NOR, high-bandwidth memory, and solid-state drives. Its chips are important because AI systems, phones, PCs, servers, cars, and industrial devices all need fast, reliable memory and storage.
Palantir
Palantir is a software company that builds platforms for integrating data, modeling operations, deploying software, and applying AI to real-world decisions. It is known for government and defense work through Gotham, commercial data operations through Foundry, deployment infrastructure through Apollo, and its Artificial Intelligence Platform, or AIP.
Pinterest is a visual discovery and shopping inspiration platform where people save, organize, search, and act on ideas through Pins and boards. The company combines search, recommendations, advertising, shopping features, and AI-powered visual understanding to connect users with ideas, products, and creators.
Reddit is an online community platform organized around user-created forums called subreddits. People use it to discuss interests, ask questions, share links, post original content, vote on submissions, and build communities, while Reddit earns money mainly from advertising and newer data-licensing and platform products.
Zoom
Zoom is a communications technology company known for video meetings and now positioned as an AI-first work platform. Its products support meetings, chat, phone, rooms, webinars, contact centers, employee engagement, and AI-assisted collaboration for individuals, teams, schools, governments, and enterprises.
Coinbase
Coinbase is a cryptocurrency and financial technology company that helps people, institutions, developers, and businesses buy, sell, store, trade, stake, and build with crypto assets. Its role matters because it connects mainstream users and regulated financial systems with blockchains and onchain applications.