Tech Spotlight

The History of Yahoo!
Yahoo Inc, is the owner of famous search engine and email client, Yahoo.com. Yahoo is the second most popular visited website in the world and the U.S. Continue Reading

The History of Facebook
It all got started back in 2003, as Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg created it, along with help of his friends and roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Zuckerberg was in his sophomore year at Harvard when opened it up, as a way to get his mind off his crush. Continue Reading

The History of American Online (AOL)
AOL was once a leader in online service providers in the world and America, but just as quickly as it grew, it fell. Here is how America Online got their start. Continue Reading

The History of FireFox
Firefox has only been around for a short time (7 years in 2009) but that doesn’t make any of their history any less important than companies that have been around longer than Firefox. Continue Reading

The History of TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a blog that is all about Web 2.0. This mega blog has become famous over the past 4 years and is still growing. What started out as a small company, has turned into a huge profitable network. Continue Reading

The History of DMOZ
DMOZ was known as Gnuhoo when it was first founded. Bob Truel and Rich Skrenta founded Gnuhoo in the year 1998. At the time Skrenta and Truel happened to be engineers for Sun Microsystems. Continue Reading

The History of Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a Technology Corporation located in California that was founded in 1935 by Will Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto. They formed the corporation based on an arrangement with a professor at Stanford College. Continue Reading

The History of Inktomi
Inktomi Corporation is based in California. Founded in 1996, the company originally provided software for internet service providers. A professor at UC Berkeley, Eric Brewer, and a grad student, Paul Gauthier, were the founders. Continue Reading

The History of Infoseek
Infoseek was founded in 1994 by a brilliant engineer named Steve Kirsch. It became an extremely popular search engine and had the nick name of “Big Yellow.” There are many versions of when and how InfoSeek became a true web search engine. Continue Reading

The History of MySpace
After Friendster was released in 2002, some eUniverse employees came together and decided to copy the more popular features of the website. The first version of MySpace was ready for launch ten days after they decided to do this. Continue Reading

The History of Blogger
Blogger was first launched on August 23, 1999. It was created by Pyra Labs. Blogger is one of the earliest blog publishing tools. It has been credited for helping to popularize the format. At first Blogger was entirely free and there was no income model. When Pyra Lab’s money was diminished, the employees worked without pay for weeks, even months. Continue Reading

The History of Acer
Founded in Taiwan, Acer is a multinational manufacturer of electronics. They also happen to own the largest franchised personal computer retail chain that exists in Taipei, Taiwan. Continue Reading

The History of AllTel
Alltel Corporation was the fifth largest wireless telecommunications company located within the United States. It had 14.7 million customers, as of the last known data of the fourth quarter of 2008. The company was only behind AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel Corporation and T-Mobile in customer count Continue Reading

The History of Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global company providing a range of services, products and solutions to various sectors including both industrial and commercial enterprises. They offer these services to those who need electronic components and those that need enterprise computing solutions around the world. Continue Reading

The History of AutoDesk
The company has prided itself on its development and release of a variety of digital prototyping solutions which help users to visualize their design, simulate it in a computer based environment, and analyze the design’s real world performance during every step of the designing process. Continue Reading

The History of Akamai
Akamai is a technology company that has been at the forefront of providing distributed platforms for computers, global Internet solutions and delivery of applications, with its headquarters being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The name of the company comes from the Hawaiian name denoting intelligence or smartness which has in essence been the hallmark of this company. Continue Reading

The History of Amazon.Com
Amazon is a Fortune 500 American e-commerce company. It is the largest online electronic retailer in America. Its revenues are triple those of its nearest competitor Staples Inc. Founded in 1994 by Jeffrey Bezos, it’s world headquarters are in Seattle, Washington. Amazon serves a worldwide audience. Its website was launched in 1995 and is available in English, Chinese, French, German and Japanese. Continue Reading

The History of Atos Origin
Atos Origin is a worldwide company that provides international information technology services. The company is operational in some forty countries around the world. It has more than 50,000 employees. It is a publically traded company on Euronext using the symbol ATO. The company was initially founded in 2000 and its headquarters are located in Paris, France and in Zaventem, Belgium. Continue Reading

The History of Best Buy
Best Buy Inc is a leading provider of consumer electronics. The company is a top rated Fortune 500 company and is considered to the largest specialty retailer within its sector throughout the United States. It accounts for about 21 percent of the market. Best Buy Inc also is present in the Canadian, Chinese and Mexican market places. Continue Reading

The History of Alexa.Com
Alexa is a type of Internet. The Alexa Internet was founded back in April of 1996. The purpose behind creating Alexa Internet was based on creating an Internet that was intelligent and that was constantly enhancing the participation of the Internet users. Since the creation of Alexa in 1996, there have been various developments for Internet tool bars which function on an installation basis, one of the biggest web crawls, and an infrastructure that was designed and developed for the processing and serving of large amounts of data and information. Continue Reading

The History of Amdocs
The odds are that most people have never even heard of the company called Amdocs. However, it has been one of the most important providers of services and software for customer relationship management, billing, web portals, and operations support systems for many years now. The company was originally founded way back in 1982 in chesterfield, Missouri. Continue Reading

The History of At&t
AT&T has worldwide acceptability; the name is synonymous with the best, most reliable telephone service not only in the United States, but also the world. AT&T is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services in the United States and it is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States. Continue Reading

The History of Bidz.Com
Bidz.com is a website for purchasing and accessing jewelry online. It offers within customers’ financial limits the trusted value of its products that have been accorded the prime crown of all times in terms of jewelry that have ever graced the planet. Continue Reading

The History of AlienWare
If you have never heard of Alienware, then you are not alone. This company is a subsidiary of Dell Incorporated and is an American personal computer hardware company that mainly assembles important third party components into those desktops with custom enclosures. This is normally for the purpose of high performance gaming. Continue Reading

The History of Apex
Apex was founded in California by David Ji and Ancle Hsu in August of 1997. Before this, they had their own scrap metal exporting business, named United Delta, Inc, which was formed in 1992. Ji and Hsu then began to produce DVD players through a Chinese manufacturer called Visual Disc and Digital Video Corporation, otherwise known as VDDV.