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View, Inc.
View, Inc. is an American glass-manufacturing company that produces a smart glass based on electrochromism. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in Milpitas, California with a manufacturing facility in Olive Branch, Mississippi. History The company was co-founded in April 2007 by Paul Nguyen and Mike Scobey as eChromics, Based in Santa Rosa, California . The company was renamed Soladigm in October 2007, and appointed Rao Mulpuri as CEO in December 2008. The firm moved headquarters to Milpitas, California in a reconditioned Seagate Technology factory. In July 2010, the company announced its intent to start production from a new facility in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The same year, it was one of 12 winners of General Electric's $200 million "Ecomagination Challenge." It received a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The company name was changed to View, Inc. in November 2012, and began shipping fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |