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Nintendo

maira — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:52:20 +0000

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.^[5] Eventually, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan’s third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion.Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington. According to Nintendo’s Touch! Generations website, the name “Nintendo” translated from Japanese to English means “Leave luck to Heaven”. As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units. (More on Wikipedia)

Banco de la Nación Argentina

maira — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:24:53 +0000

The bank was founded in 1891 by President Carlos Pellegrini on a site previously occupied by the first building to house the Teatro Colón. Its current president is Gabriela Ciganotto, who stated the main goal of the BNA in her inauguration speech as “putting [the bank] at the service of production, especially small and medium businesses, and not of speculation.”

The bank’s reputation suffered after it was revealed that bribes had been received by the board of directors in 1994 when contacting IBM for the supply of computers, software, and communication equipment, becoming a prominent scandal during the administration of Carlos Menem. (More on Wikipedia)

Nokia

maira — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:30:52 +0000

Nokia Corporation (pronounced [ˈnɔkiɑ] in Finnish) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland’s capital Helsinki.^[4] Nokia is focused on wireless and wired telecommunications, with 128,445 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of EUR 50.7 billion and operating profit of 5.0 billion as of 2008. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones: its global device market share was about 37% in Q1 2009, down from 39% in Q1 2008 and unchanged from Q4 2008. Nokia produces mobile phones for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia’s subsidiary Nokia Siemens Networks produces telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services. Navteq is part of Nokia’s strategy of focusing on mobile navigation. (More on Wikipedia)