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Samsung Founded: 1938 The vast changes made to Samsung’s logo reflect the staggering length of time they have been around. Samsung began life in 1938 as a trading company which made noodles and a wide range of dried seafood. Lee Byung-Chul (founder) named the company Samsung, which translates to 3 stars. His vision was that Samsung would become as permanent as the stars in the sky. It wasn’t until 1993 that Samsung removed the 3 stars from their logo opting instead for the logo that is so familiar to us now. The new logo was introduced to mark the 55th anniversary of the company’s founding. The key features include: The slightly-tilted ellipse which represents the universe The Blue representing the sky and ocean The S and the G of Samsung break the boundary of the logo showing Samsung’s connectedness to everything. Microsoft Founded: 4th April 1975 The most recent incarnation of Microsoft uses 4 coloured boxes to evoke the i

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Which professions have the happiest workers? Sexy industries like the movies or lucrative, intellectually challenging businesses like software engineering? It so happens that both of those professions make it into the top five happiest industries, according to a new list compiled by seven-year-old Irvine, CA career website CareerBliss . Though I tend to be skeptical about happiest and unhappiest lists, CareerBliss collected an impressive amount of data to put this one together. It tallied 9,800 company reviews generated by its users. It asked them to rate their happiness on a scale of one to five in eight different categories. Then it crunched the numbers and tallied the answers out to three decimal points. The categories: 1. Person you work for 2. People you work with 3. Work setting 4. Support you get 5. Rewards you receive 6. Growth opportunities 7. Company culture 8. Way you work The industry that comes out on top: Software publishers . They get a 4.014 scor

China has been angered by previous meetings between the Dalai Lama (left) and Barack Obama US President Barack Obama will meet exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday, US officials say. China has urged the US to cancel the meeting, saying it will "seriously impair China-US relations". China describes the Dalai Lama as a separatist, while the spiritual leader says he only advocates greater autonomy for Tibet, not independence. Officials say the US does not support Tibetan independence but is concerned about human rights in China. The two men last met in 2011, in talks that angered China. Tibet is governed as an autonomous region in China. China has been widely accused of repressing political and religious freedoms in Tibet. Beijing rejects this and says economic development has improved Tibetans' lives. 'Respected leader' Mr Obama will host the Dalai Lama in a private meeting in th

Robert Mugabe is turning 90 and a weekend of celebrations is planned in Zimbabwe to celebrate the president's long life. Born in the village of Kutama, south-west of the capital, he was educated by Jesuits and went on to become a teacher before joining the liberation struggle, spending 11 years in prison and becoming Zimbabwe's first leader in 1980. Here are nine things you may not know about him - and which may hold the key to his longevity. 1) Exercise and traditional food "I fall sick if I don't exercise," Mr Mugabe said three years ago. Needing little sleep, he gets up between 04:00 and 05:00 every morning to exercise while, according to a close source, listening to the BBC World Service. But he's not fond of the gym machines his wife has installed in state house and prefers to follow his own regime : "In prison we had no equipment, we just had ourselves and that's what I still do today." Another secret to hi

Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia drove a few blocks from WhatsApp’s discreet headquarters in Mountain View to a disused white building across the  railroad tracks, the former North County Social Services office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps.  That’s where the three of them inked the agreement to sell their messaging phenom –which brought in a miniscule $20 million in revenue last year — to the world’s largest social network. Koum, who Forbes believes owns 45% of WhatsApp and thus is suddenly worth $6.8 billion — was born and raised in a small village outside of Kiev, Ukraine, the only child of a housewife and a construction manager who built hospitals and schools. His house had no hot water, and his parents rarely talked on the phone in case it was tapped by the state. It sounds bad, but

  A Massachusetts woman found guilty in the first-degree murder of her pregnant friend has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, according to Worcester Superior Court. Julie Corey, who was 35 at the time of the crime, was convicted in 2009 . She was found to have bludgeoned and strangled her friend, Darlene Haynes, 23, before cutting the baby from the victim's womb. Haynes' body was found in her apartment on July 27, 2009. She was eight months pregnant at the time of her death. Days after the murder, Haynes' baby was found with Corey in New Hampshire. DNA evidence and a fingerprint on a bottle at the crime scene tied Corey to the killing, the district attorney's office said. According to trial testimony, Corey tried to pass the baby off as her own to family and friends, the statement said. Julie Corey and her boyfriend Alex Dion with the stolen baby --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MIDDLESBORO, KY. (WATE) - Family and friends said goodbye Tuesday night to a snake-handling pastor. Jamie Coots, 42, died after suffering several rattlesnake bites. Coots was handling the snakes during his Saturday evening service at "Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name" in Middlesboro, Kentucky. He refused any medical help.  Coots was also the subject of the National Geographic Channel series "Snake Salvation." A crowd of people lined the sidewalks outside of Creech Funeral Home. They came out to Coots' funeral to speak out against Westboro Baptist Church. Members of the controversial Kansas-based church threatened to protest against homosexuality and veterans at the funeral, but never showed up. "We've got about ten of these American flags so any protest signs they bring we've got a right to be there too so we're going to cover them up. We're not going to get violent," said veteran Doug Bayless. "This is by

Facebook has entered into an agreement to acquire WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, for $16 billion in cash and stock, according to a filing Wednesday. The deal is by far Facebook's largest acquisition to date and comes after rumors in late 2012 and early 2013 that Facebook and Google were vying to buy the messaging service. "WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's cofounder and CEO, said in a statement. "I've known Jan [Koum, WhatsApp cofounder] for a long time and I'm excited to partner with him and his team to make the world more open and connected." WhatsApp is the most popular of a set of mobile messaging apps that some argued posed a threat to Facebook's business. The app lets users send messages for free across smartphone platforms and had proved particularly popular abroad and in emerging markets. According to

Her Excellency, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu It has been over a year now, since your dear husband-Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu passed on. Knowing the level of love and passion that existed between you two, and the moving tribute you wrote, how has life been without him? Her Excellency, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu: The exit of a man of his caliber means that things would never be the same because of the huge vacuum that is created by such an exit. As I said in my tribute, God gave me a year to prepare, even though I had a lot of faith that he will pull through, it was an emotional roller coaster, which eventually culminated in his demise. It was almost another full year of condolence and commiseration, and when that was over, you now had to ease yourself into a new life, and I consider myself particularly lucky, because it was a transition into a new life, new opportunities, new experiences because after the mandatory period of mourning, I now took up the appointment as the Ambassador of Nig

  A 3-year old girl has shocked the world with her amazing gift. Alexis Martin, a three-year-old has become the youngest person in Arizona to be accepted into Mensa. Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Alexis was found to have an IQ of above 160, and has even taught herself Spanish! Her mom and dad started to realize she was something special when she began to recite bedtime stories at 12-18 months old. "We'd be driving around in the car and she would recite her bedtime story from the night before,” said her dad. “She didn’t just recite them, she recited them exactly.” The parents say Alexis' use of adult apps on their iPad has helped her learn and she began reading at age two. The parents are now debating whether Alexis should start kindergarten early. The av

This is that kind of story one hears and he or she just shakes his or her head and spits on the ground in disgust. 2Face Idibia has become notorious for making several children with different women who are not his wives! 2Face is the celebrity who has made baby mama culture the new norm in Nigeria. When he decided to settle down with Annie, one of his (three known) baby mamas, many of his fans and critics were happy that finally he would become more responsible and sexually focused on his legal wife, Annie, but the latest report filtering into town concretely suggests that marriage cannot change this Benue-born singer. Icon Weekly can authoritatively inform you that as you read this, a young lady who works for one of the new generation banks, Teniola, is three months pregnant for this prince of African music! Did that hit you like Mike Tyson’s punch! Wait, more is coming. We gathered that Teniola, who hails from Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has been 2Face’s account officer for

I saw something like this on my friend's facebook page (Gone too soon. Will Smith(1968-2014) and decided to check online only for me to see the image below, then i decided to find out what the hoax is all about.. Read and feel the gap. Origins:   In October 2013, Facebook users began seeing purported posts from news outlets teasing the story that Will Smith had died in surgery after an accident befell him while he was filming the movie Hancock 2 and offering links to a video report on the subject: Hollywood Press: Will Smith has just been pronounced dead after undergoing an immediate spinal surgery caused by an accident while filming Hancock 2 (2014). The negligence of the doctor with medication overdose was blamed to be the cause of his death. Watch the full video of CCTV cam installed in the operating room where he was admitted: No such tragic fate has befallen the popular actor, however. Not only are the accounts of his death a hoax, but those reports are being spread by a mal

  I watched this documentary on T.V, then checked on it online and decided to share with you. A hidden form of abuse known as “breast ironing”, in which girls as young as 10 have their chests pounded with hot objects to disguise the onset of puberty, could be taking place in Britain. The mutilation is a traditional practice from Cameroon designed to deter unwanted male attention, pregnancy and rape by delaying the signs that a girl is becoming a woman. Experts believe that the custom is being practiced amongst the several thousand Cameroonians now living here. A conference on how to prevent the abuse both in the UK and overseas is being held today in Ealing, west London. Its organisers, a charity called CAME Women’s and Girl’s Development Organisation (Cawogido), is already working with the Met Police and social services to tackle the problem. The Independent understands a woman was arrested two years ago in London because police believed she had performed the proce

  A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her newlywed husband in the murder of a man they met through Craigslist admitted to the slaying in a jailhouse interview with a newspaper and said she has killed more than 20 others across the country, claims police said they are investigating. In an interview with the Daily Item in Sunbury, Pa., 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead guilty to killing Troy LaFerrara in November. She also said in the interview that she has killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the last six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult.   "I feel it is time to get all of this out. I don't care if people believe me. I just want to get it out," Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night. Sunbury police Chief Steve Mazzeo told the newspaper that investigators have been in contact with the FBI and law enforcement in several other states. "From information we g

An aircraft carrying 202 passengers was hijacked early Monday morning. The plane was bound for Rome but had to land in Geneva as the hijacker sought Asylum in Switzerland. Amazingly, the hijacker was the aircraft's co-pilot, The man, an Ethiopian in his early 30s took control of the plane when the pilot went to the restroom and there after closed the fortified door. He flew into Geneva's airspace several times, he asked the control tower: "And you have to give us lastly permission on board for asylum." "Yes I know," the tower responded. "Sorry, but we are still waiting for the response. We are trying our best to get you the response, sir." The surrender Eventually, the plane landed at Geneva International Airport. "I will be coming out via the window," the co-pilot told the control tower. He then escaped through the cockpit window using a rope, and surrendered to police, Brandt said. He was unarmed, authorities said.