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Sumner Murray Redstone (né Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate.He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom, chairman of CBS Corporation (both companies merged in 2019, a year before Redstone's death), and the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain.
Sumner Redstone, the head of Viacom and CBS Corporation, increased his stake in Midway from about 15% in 1998 to about 87% by the end of 2007. [6] In December 2008, Redstone sold all his stock and $70 million of Midway debt to Mark Thomas, a private investor, for $100,000. [7] In February 2009, Midway Games filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [8]
Pages in category "Defunct computer companies based in California" The following 123 pages are in this category, out of 123 total.
Ian Agol (1992, Mathematics) Mathematician known for work in topology, professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Doris Tsao (1997) MacArthur Fellow, Neuroscientist, Professor of Biology at Caltech; SethBling (2001, Computer Science) video game YouTuber known for Minecraft redstone and speedrunning
Computer City was a chain of United States–based computer superstores operated by Tandy Corporation; the retailer was sold to CompUSA in 1998 and was merged into the CompUSA organization. Computer City was a supercenter concept featuring name-brand and private label computers, software and related products; at the height of its success the ...
It was founded as California Computer Products, Inc [1] [2] in 1959, [5] located in Anaheim, California. Sanders Associates, Inc., purchased Calcomp in 1980. [6] In 1986, Sanders Associates was purchased by the Lockheed Corporation, and merged into Lockheed's Information Systems Group. [7] Lockheed kept CalComp as a brand name.
Autonetics built an office computer system (RECOMP), and was responsible for the guidance and control system for the Boeing-built Minuteman missiles. The division ultimately produced the Monica family of microcomputers, the D-17B Minuteman I computer, and the D-37B [ 5 ] and D-37C Minuteman II computers, in which micro-miniaturization reduced ...
Rocketdyne is an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California. Rocketdyne was founded as a division of North American Aviation in 1955 and was later part of Rockwell International from 1967 until 1996 and Boeing from 1996 to ...