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...“I had a dinner here once with Marsha Laufer, who’s probably the biggest Democratic donor in Florida, and I had her sit next to Thomas Peterffy,” he says....
...As head of General Electric from 1981 to 2001, he took the company founded by Thomas Edison a century before and brutally transformed it into the biggest US company by market value....
...(Bloomberg) The first Ponzi scheme In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and in 1879 Thomas Edison created the lightbulb....
...There’s also a side-tale about its boasting the first outdoor electric Christmas tree, though the Del no longer makes the claim that Thomas Edison himself wired up the entire building....
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...Edison over the patent for the lightbulb....
...Andrew Lo at MIT says financial innovation is a race between Moore’s law (technology improves) and Murphy’s law (if something can go wrong, it will)....
...Timeline — from Thomas Edison to the unwinding of GE Capital 1890 — Four companies representing inventor Thomas Edison’s interests merge to form the Edison General Electric Company. 1932 — GE Credit Corporation...
...Thomas Edison In popular memory, Thomas Edison is known as a great inventor, the creator of electric light, the phonograph and moving pictures....
...Kurzweil’s supporters hail him as “the ultimate thinking machine” and “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison”....
...He gave a complimentary subscription to Thomas Edison, hoping for a celebrity endorsement....
...The photography contingent, for instance, now includes New Yorkers Robert Hershkowitz and Hans P Kraus Jr, plus Hamiltons Gallery, Michael Hoppen and Blanca Bernheimer....
...To raise funding, Thompson sold a Henry Moore his father had given him for £230,000 – which endowed NLS....
...Two of their children, Edward Jr and Kara, suffered from cancer....
...Sam Palmisano, chairman and chief executive officer, IBM • A Business and Its Beliefs, by Thomas Watson Jr. “To be honest, I do not read a lot of business books....
...When we think of great innovations and innovators, we often imagine lone geniuses, such as Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein, working in laboratories or hunched over their desks....
...Graham Moores, Abu Dhabi Glenn Hubbard: US markets remain a significant leadership position....
...Thomas Edison, the great US inventor, originally conceived of the phonograph as as beiprimarily as an archival device. He imagined people saving their recorded utterances....
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