Other Windy City players that have made headlines in recent months include (though not in as infamous a fashion as Groupon) mobile marketing firm Vibe Media, food delivery and restaurant finder company GrubHub, online trading platform optionMONSTER (home of tradeMONSTER) and personnel management software company SilkRoad.
Also lending a hand is the infamous finger found in a bowl of Wendy's chili.
The man behind the technology is Immerz CEO and president Shahriar Afshar, a physics researcher infamous in academic circles for a controversial experiment he conducted on Harvard in quantum mechanics.
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Redstone is also infamous for keeping a revolving door at Viacom, ousting Viacom chief executive Frank Biondi in 1996 and firing Viacom chief executive Tom Freston a decade later.
The infamous QE2 sparked a 7-month rally that saw few significant corrections, but over the course of a week at the beginning of August, nearly all of those gains were wiped out.
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Twelve years after an infamous spill from a well off Santa Barbara in 1969, Congress barred the government from issuing new offshore leases anywhere but in the western Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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The new rules, passed in response to the infamous misdeeds of a few--Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Tyco--will make life tougher for all 15, 000 publicly held firms in the U.S. Wall Street will get hit especially hard.
More performances of The Rite of Spring followed close on the heels of that famous first night, and by the 1920s, it was played in the U.S. In the 1940s, the infamous piece gained a permanent place in pop culture when Walt Disney used part of it as the soundtrack to Fantasia.
The man at the centre of the storm, former Arsenal striker Henry, released a statement two days after the infamous match in which he said a replay would have been "the fairest solution".
In a now-infamous intercepted cellular telephone call, Gingrich was recorded discussing such a counter-strategy with top GOP leaders.
Last year, when a Web site launched by infamous hacker group LulzSec was knocked offline by a massive DDoS attack it turned to CloudFlare, a 30-person San Franicisco start-up for protection.
But Brazilian media already are drawing parallels between this attack and the infamous gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India.
This Hines was easily reconcilable with the infamous egomaniac who had a hard time playing sideman to anyone, even the almighty Louis Armstrong when he was a member of Armstrong's All Stars.
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Pope Benedict insisted on beginning his emotional visit by walking alone under the infamous sign and saying a prayer in front of the reconstruction of the execution wall where Nazis lined up and shot thousands of prisoners.
An American socialite and a U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg as appointed by Harry S. Truman, Mesta is notorious for being associated with a certain infamous phrase coined for the over the top soirees she held in Washington D.
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It meant there was a completely new top four in place from their last Test outing against England in August and a total of seven changes from that infamous match at Lord's, including a fourth captain of the year in Misbah-ul-Haq.
During the four-and-a-half months of the infamous battle, the corps lost 499 airmen and 782 aeroplanes - a third of its total force.
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In a revealing aside on the infamous Cottingley fairy photographs, taken by two young girls (one of whom worked in a photographer's shop retouching prints), she suggests that it may well have been the literal-minded rationalism of Conan Doyle and his ilk that was the problem.
There he became a successor to infamous trader Marc Rich, who had left the company in 1973.
That's because Brad Garlinghouse--the senior vice president who penned last year's infamous Peanut Butter Manifesto, a treatise on everything wrong at the Web portal--has left.
The infamous snail-darter, a three-inch fish that held up for years the construction of a federal dam in Tennessee, has happily survived the dam's arrival.
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The infamous Marquee Club went through a succession of incarnations around here, when at 90 Wardour Street it hosted Bowie, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Cure, Joy Division and - of course - the Sex Pistols.
In the midst of canyon country, Robbers Roost, near the town of Green River, was both a hideout and base for Butch Cassidy, leader of the Wild Bunch Gang, a thieving group infamous for its train and bank robberies.
As these frauds all to often develop, the funds were used, in part, to repay earlier investors a la the infamous Ponzi scheme, and, in part, to pay of personal expenses of the masterminds of this fairly small minded fraud.
The game averaged a respectable 81 on the infamous Metacritic with many outlets, including our own Erik Kain, giving it high praise for being a fresh and fun take on an often tired genre.
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Mr Blair took the extra precaution of saying that there were still bound to be problems, as indeed there have been: some hospitals have cancelled operations, and there have been a few of the infamous trolley waits, though not nearly so many as last year.
In Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the White Star Line's most infamous ship was built, a new museum opened last month complete with interactive, hands-on exhibits, adding to a growing list of museums dedicated to the disaster, including one in Southampton, the point from which the ship set sail.
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