Emirates (airline) Emirates (Arabic: طَيَران الإمارات DMG: Ṭayarān Al-Imārāt) is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The airline is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which is wholly owned by the government of Dubai's Investment Corporation of Dubai.[2] It is the largest airline in the Middle East, operating nearly 3,400 flights per week [3][4] from its hub at Dubai International Airport, to more than 133 cities in 74 countries across six continents.[5] Cargo activities are undertaken by the Emirates Group's Emirates SkyCargo division.[6] During the mid-1980s, Gulf Air began to cut back its services to Dubai. As a result Emirates was conceived in March 1985 with backing from Dubai's royal family, with Pakistan International Airlines providing two of the airline's first aircraft on wet-lease.
It was required to operate independent of government subsidies, apart from $10 million in start-up capital. The airline became headed by Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the airline's present chairman. Allianz. Allianz SE[2] is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich.
Its core business and focus is insurance. As of 2013, it was the world's largest insurance company, the 11th-largest financial services group and 25th-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine,[3] as well as the largest financial services company when measured by 2012 revenue. Its Allianz Global Investors division ranks as a top-five global active investment manager, having €1,443 billion of assets under management (AuM), of which €1,131 billion are third-party assets (as of 2010-09-30), with specialized asset managers including PIMCO (bonds), RCM (equities) and Degi (real estate).
Allianz sold Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank in November 2008.[4] As a result of this merger, Allianz gained a 14% controlling stake in the new Commerzbank. Automatic Data Processing. Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
(ADP), is an American provider of business outsourcing solutions. It is also a provider of computing services to automobile and heavy equipment dealers. ADP is one of four U.S. companies to get a AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's (S&P) and Moody's.[2][3] History[edit] In 1949 Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processing business with his brother Joe Taub. From 1985 onward, ADP’s annual revenues exceeded the $1 billion mark, with paychecks processed for about 10% of the U.S. workforce. In September 1998, ADP acquired UK-based Chessington Computer Centre that supplied administration services to the UK Government.[5] In 2007, the ADP Brokerage Service Group was spun off to form Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
ADP is sponsor of the ADP National Employment Report as well as the ADP Small Business Report. IBM. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most patents generated by a business (as of 2017) for 24 consecutive years.[5] Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the PC, the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).
History[edit] NACA researchers using an IBM type 704 electronic data processing machine in 1957. Keystroke Dynamics Consortium. Foxconn. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan.
It is the world's largest electronics contracter manufacturer,[3][4] and the third-largest information technology company by revenue.[5] Foxconn is primarily an original design manufacturer and its clients include major American, European, and Japanese electronics and information technology companies. Terry Gou. Gou Tai-ming, also known as Terry Gou, (traditional Chinese: 郭台銘; simplified Chinese: 郭台铭; pinyin: Guō Táimíng) (born October 8, 1950 in Banqiao Township, Taipei County) is a Taiwanese tycoon who is the founder and chairman of Foxconn,[2] a company that manufactures electronics on contract for other companies such as Apple Inc..
It is the largest such electronics manufacturing services company in the world, with factories in several countries, mostly in mainland China, where it employs 1.2 million people and is its largest exporter.[3] Early life[edit] Gou's parents lived in mainland China's Shanxi Province before they fled to Taiwan in 1949,[4] where Gou was born. His father had worked as a policeman in the past. As the first child of his family, Gou received education from elementary school to post college. Founding of Hon Hai[edit]