Business: American Business

US computer and electronics company, manufacturer of the iPod MP3 music player, iPhone multimedia mobile telephone, and...

Multinational company, the largest manufacturer of computers in the world. The...

Trade name of a sweetened, carbonated drink, originally made with coca leaves and flavoured with cola nuts, and containing caramel...

U.S. company that in 2001 became the largest bankruptcy and stock collapse in U.S. history up to that time. The company was formed in 1985 when...

Industrialist and philanthropist, born in Dunfermline, Fife, E Scotland, UK. Although he had only a primary-school...

US millionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of Standard Oil in 1870, from which were descended four of the...

US billionaire property financier. Trump made his name in the 1980s with a series of property purchases, with tax concessions, from...

(1955–) Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on 24 February 1955. The adopted son of machine-shop technician Paul Jobs and his wife...

US computer entrepreneur, who founded the world-famous Internet retailer Amazon.com with an initial investment of US$300,000 from...

US film producer, animator, and pioneer of family entertainment, whose career spanned the development of the motion picture medium...

(1/29/1954–) Autobiography, memoir, book-club host, nonfiction—health; talk-show host Young Oprah had an inauspicious beginning. To start with...