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On 2018-02-03, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>


There have been examples of US copanies recently buying Irish
companies and moving the company name to Ireland. I think the process is
called 'reversing into'. The whole thing is a spurious tax exercise.


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