I admit it, I’m an Amazon junkie. I get a lot of what I need off the web, and Amazon is one of the best ecommerce sites out there. I was skeptical when I heard about Amazon Prime and their free trial. Two day shipping free- one day shipping for $3.99. [...]

American Power Conversion was founded by three electronic power engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who were originally working on solar power. There wasn’t enough money to make a viable solar concern, but there was in power protection. They produced their first UPS in 1984 (the 750). Rodger Dowdell, Jr. joined APC [...]

Stan Shih, a Taiwanese Electrical Engineer, founded Multitech in 1976 with four partners. They started out with about $30,000 in capital, and originally focused on microprocessor based development. In 1987 they changed the name Acer, and in 1988 they had their IPO. Thirty years after forming, they’re the 3rd largest computer [...]