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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. and Toronto, Ont.,

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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pled guilty in the District of Connecticut to a commodity price manipulation conspiracy. According to court documents filed in the District of Connecticut, Glencore Ltd. employees (including those who worked at Chemoil Corporation, which was majority-owned by Glencore Ltd.’s had a contract to buy fuel oil, Glencore Ltd.