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Global Cash Access was founded in July 1998 as a joint venture of three payment processing companies: BA Merchant Services (majority-owned by Bank of America), First Data, and USA Processing Inc. [3] [4] First Data contributed the assets of its gaming business, First Data Financial Services, which provided cash services at over 800 gaming properties; it had purchased the business earlier in ...
Volkswagen Crafter delivery van for Hermes in Germany. The company was founded in 1972 in Germany, opening 20 depots in its first year. [2] In 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it began offering deliveries to East Germany.
The Internet Archive began archiving cached web pages in 1996. One of the earliest known pages was archived on May 10, 1996 at 2:08 p.m. (). [5]Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California, [6] in October 2001, [7] [8] primarily to address the problem of web content vanishing whenever it gets changed or when a website is ...
Two days later, the German-language Wikipedia, the largest non-English language version, passed the 10,000 article mark. On 20 June 2003, the same day that the Wikimedia Foundation was founded, "Wikiquote" was created. A month later, "Wikibooks" was launched. "Wikisource" was set up towards the end of the year.
[63] [52] [64] Days after the law enforcement action, a group of anonymous archivists launched Anna's Archive, a search engine that provides access to the contents of Z-Library and other shadow libraries. [65] [66] Many other workarounds to the recent attempts to take down Z-Library have been reported.
The following is a list of chief executive officers of notable companies. The list also includes lead executives with a position corresponding to chief executive officer (CEO), such as managing director (MD), and any concurrent positions held. Companies with a revenue of at least US$ 10 billion are included in the list.
The Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by agreement in accordance with the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922, however Northern Ireland opted to exclude itself from the Irish Free State two days later creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ...
The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb , Croatia (then SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth .