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Oscar de la Renta

maira — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:52 +0000

Oscar de la Renta (born Oscar Aristides Renta Fiallo) was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father. At the age of 18 he left the Dominican Republic to study in Spain, where he studied painting at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. He quickly changed his focus to fashion. While living in Spain, he became interested in the world of design and began sketching for leading Spanish fashion houses, which soon led to an apprenticeship with Spain’s most renowned couturier, Cristóbal Balenciaga. Later, de la Renta left Spain to join Antonio Castillo as a couture assistant at Lanvin in Paris. (More on Wikipedia)

Oracle

maira — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:38:01 +0000

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products — particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market. By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.

The corporation has arguably become best-known due to association with its flagship product, the Oracle database. The company also builds tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. (More on Wikipedia)

Oki Electric Industry

maira — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:41:16 +0000

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (沖電気工業株式会社, Oki Denki Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6703), commonly referred to as OKI, OKI Electric or the OKI Group, is a Japanese company manufacturing and selling info-telecom and printer products. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, OKI operates in over 120 countries around the world.

OKI manufactured the first telephone in Japan in 1881, and now, after more than 120 years the company specializes not only in developing and manufacturing telecommunication equipment but also in information products and mechatronics products, such as Automated teller machine(ATMs) and printers. Its printer business is operated through OKI Data, under the brand name, OKI Printing Solutions. OKI had a semiconductor business, in which it spun-off and sold to Rohm Co., Ltd., on October 1, 2008. (More on Wikipedia)

Olé

maira — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:31:27 +0000

Diario Olé is a morning daily Spanish language sports newspaper from Argentina, started on May 1996 by the Clarín Group. It has become the most important sports publication in Argentina, specially after the closing of El Gráfico in 2002 (now monthly magazine).

It’s mainly focused on football, but covers most sports events related to Argentina, and the most important international sport news. (More on Wikipedia)

Olivetti

maira — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:49:25 +0000

The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti. Olivetti opened its first overseas manufacturing plant in 1930, and its Divisumma electric calculator was launched in 1948. Olivetti produced Italy’s first electronic computer, the transistorised Elea 9003, in 1959, and purchased the Underwood Typewriter Company that year. In 1964 the company sold its electronics division to the American company General Electric. It continued to develop new computing products on its own; one of these was Programma 101, regarded as the first personal computer produced by a company. (More on Wikipedia)