The venture will float under a new firm called Planet Blue Company.
The Blue Origin company, which received funds from Nasa for some of its early development work, said it continued to work on a crew transport system even though it was no longer getting any financial support from the agency.
"We believe Facebook's virtual ownership of the social graph, strong competitive moat, and unwavering focus on the user experience position the company to significantly improve monetization over time and to become an enduring, blue-chip company built for the long term, " J.
He funds aerospace company Blue Origin, which is developing spacecraft in West Texas.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos is developing a suborbital vehicle at his company Blue Origin.
Existing investors who joined the round: Blue Chip Venture Company, DFJ, Illinois Ventures, Matthew Pritzker Company, Mercury Fund and RPM Ventures.
The most powerful move came in the final hour of trading, after blue-chip financial company J.
His spaceship company, Blue Origin, is working on a vehicle that would transport astronauts to the international space station.
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The MD of one consultancy told us how its intelligence-gathering dissuaded a blue-chip British company from a potentially damaging investment in a corrupt privatisation in a south-east Asian country.
The Hawaiian company Kona Blue raises a type of yellowtail from eggs to harvest in 3, 000 cubic-meter cages tethered to the sea floor, one-half mile off the coast of Kona.
In December a company called Blue H Technologies, based in Oosterhout in the Netherlands, placed a half-size prototype turbine about 20km off the coast of southern Italy in water 108 metres deep.
In addition to his interest in neuroscience, Bezos has long funded a secretive aerospace company called Blue Origin, which made headlines in August when one of their unmanned spacecrafts blew up during a test flight.
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The changes at IBM, which are extraordinary for such a large company, have boosted profit margins, making Big Blue look more and more like a software company.
He makes a concession in the yellow, green, blue and brown of the company logo.
The company had pursued blue-sky basic research more common to drug titans with staffs three times as large.
Blue Ribbon Sports, a company founded by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight in 1964, eventually turned into Nike, Inc. ( NYSE: NKE) in 1978.
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Several months ago, Anthem Blue Cross, an insurance company in California owned by WellPoint, informed its customers that they would see their health insurance premiums rise by as much as 39 percent.
An early break came after he traded a pound of beans a week for a year with a graphic designer in exchange for a folksy logo of a blue bottle for his fledgling company.
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Kellner's ire was directed especially at a device called the Replay TV 4000, marketed in the US by a company called Sonic Blue, which incorporates a button allowing you to leap forward exactly 30 seconds.
Through the 1970s, when it was still known as Blue Ribbon Sports, the company focused its business model on finding low-cost producers overseas in an effort to undercut competitors and gain entry into the marketplace.
He'll also drop in on a tech company and talk with blue-collar workers.
An investigation by Commerce found that the company had sold 19 Blue Coat devices to Syria in violation of U.S. law.
CMC, based in Blue Bell, is a smaller company that does much of its business in New York state and has not donated to Nutter.
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