🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 15:25:34 -0700, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:07:51 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, Xerox said that, after 115 years as an independent 
>>> business, it would combine operations with Fujifilm Holdings of 
>>> Japan. The deal signaled the end of a company that was once an 
>>> American corporate powerhouse. “Xerox is the poster child for 
>>> monopoly technology businesses that cannot make the transition 
>>> to a new generation of technology,” said David B. Yoffie, a 
>>> professor at the Harvard Business School. The move offers a 
>>> stark reminder that no matter how high a company may fly, it 
>>> is still vulnerable to the next big breakthrough. Xerox joins 
>>> once formidable tech companies like Kodak and BlackBerry that 
>>> lost the innovation footrace.
>>> 
>>> full article at:
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/business/dealbook/xerox-fujifilm.html
>> 
>> Sad. Many great US pioneers in computer technology were recently sold to
>> foreigners. Bell Labs became French (Alcatel-Lucent) in 2006, now Finnish
>> (Nokia). They're all finished. :-(
>> 
>> Other US companies went abroad recently (say last 30 years)?
>
>Honeywell -> Bull

Honeywell sold their informations systems division to Bull.  Honeywell
however is now part of Allied Signal, which adopted the name and is
still a huge American company.