The third generation smart fortwo electric drive features a 55 kW magneto-electric motor - the first product from the EM-motive joint venture founded together with Bosch - which ensures that it is as agile and lively as ever.
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Speed being the defining characteristic of Hikari Tsushin, it not surprisingly has made the fastest rise in history--within 12 years of being founded--to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Paul MacCready, the man behind the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft, founded the mini-conglomerate.
In 1986, he was just a 26-year-old research scientist at MIT when he co-founded his first company, Boston Technology .
When Jobs was ousted from the company he co-founded the first time, in 1984, Microsoft closed its software gap with Apple in less than a decade.
He has been a proud member of Human Rights First since it was founded -- as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights -- 27 years ago, and has served as its president for the last 12.
We co-founded my first software business.
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It all started with William Gross, who in 1996 founded the first Internet incubator--Idealab, in Pasadena, Calif.
It all started with William Gross, who in 1996 founded the first Internet incubator--Idealab, in Pasadena, California--to develop his own ideas into companies.
"That was just the Pachang incident, " says Chin Chin-sheng, deputy secretary-general of the People First Party (PFP), which was founded by rival presidential candidate James Soong Chu-yu after his election defeat.
Two of these young women founded Frestyl, the first location-based online music finding service.
First, Ford was founded by a notorious anti-Semite, which is probably why my father bought Oldsmobiles all those years ago.
In 2001, Pittson co-founded the parent company, Orchard First Source Asset Management, which will have a 30% stake in the BDC.
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Among them: novelist Barbara Taylor-Bradford, news anchor Rita Cosby, first daughter Lauren Bush, Ms. Buffett and Jane Applegate, who founded and runs a small-business consulting firm.
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The first company he backed was Odeo, a start-up founded by Evan William that failed.
PICC, founded in 1949, was the first country-wide insurance company in China.
Nearly four decades after Microsoft was founded, it has finally delivered its first full- fledged, honest-to-God personal computer.
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Was it Grover Norquist, who co-founded the Islamic Institute with Saffuri and served as its first chairman?
Halle Tecco founded Rock Health, the first incubator for digital health start-ups right out of Harvard biz school.
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"I started one of the country's first hip-hop therapy programs, " said Alvarez, who co-founded Beats Rhymes and Life, a nonprofit that provides free counseling sessions to Bay Area youth.
Nathan Pusey was the first non-New Englander to be made head of America's oldest college (founded 1636).
Founded in 1998, Tencent first gained an online presence with an instant-messaging platform.
Founded in 1996 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston -- the first person to sail solo, non-stop, around the world in 1969 -- the Clipper Race revolves around the notion anyone can circumnavigate the globe, regardless of their experience.
Back in the 1990s, he co-founded Foundry Networks, which saw its IPO spike 525% on its first day of trading ( you can see my interview with Chen here).
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The Carnegie prize was founded in 1937 in memory of Scottish-born philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and was first awarded to Swallows And Amazons author Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post.
This month's more significant news, he argues, was the announcement that the U.S. military's Cyber Command (founded in 2009) would for the first time develop and field 13 offensive cyber-warfare teams.
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Founded as a financial computer-services provider in 1988, ACS for the first few years focused on processing bank transactions, but the collapse of the Texas banking industry eliminated many of its customers.
Founded in 1937 as an auction house for used appliances, it first became well-known in the 1980s for selling the assets of an earlier generation of bankrupt Silicon Valley firms, such as Osborne Computer.
Instead he founded a literary magazine, which he financed by opening the city's first coin-operated laundry.
In 1985, Tony and I founded the Churchill Club and invited Intel Co-Founder Bob Noyce to be our first speaker.
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