The First Computer War - Betting the Store | ...

With all the hype around portable and smart speakers, it’s easy to forget that they didn’t always exist. In fact, it took one fateful meeting with Monster Cables and Interscope Records to really kick the industry off. In this one-episode Business Battle, we explore the time wh ...

In 1896, Henry Ford puttered around Detroit streets testing his “Quadricycle.” This was the whimsical beginning to a revolution that redesigned the landscape of America.

Cars changed the way America lived, worked, ate, shopped, and listened to music. And more than 100 ye ...

In Folge 1 hat der UNIVAC-Großrechner erfolgreich vorhergesagt, dass Eisenhower die Wahlen im Jahr 1952 gewinnen wird. Zur Feier des Erfolgs kommt es in der Zentrale von Remington Rand in Philadelphia zu einem wahren Champagner-Besäufnis. Bei IBM, dessen Geschäftsleitung Alkohol ...  Show more

An Interview With Compaq Co-Founder and CEO Rod CanionThis Sunday, AMC is premiering a new original series called Halt And Catch Fire. Set in the early 1980s, it tells the story of a band of cowboy entrepreneurs and engineers who join the PC Wars by cloning an IBM machine and tak ...  Show more

While working for Stanford University in the 1980s, married couple Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack help invent a technology that allows computers of different makes and models to talk to each other for the first time. But they risk financial ruin when they decide to commercialize ...

Almost two decades before the launch of the iPhone, Apple Executive Marc Porat launches a project to develop the world’s first smartphone. But to fulfill his ambitions, he will have to launch his own company: General Magic. There, he will assemble a team of brilliant engineers ...