Entertainment & Arts
Signal Cos., founded in 1928 as Signal Oil & Gas Co., shrewdly rode an acquisitions-and-divestiture wave to turn itself into a premier diversified high-tech manufacturer with $6 billion in annual sales.
May 16, 1985
Technology and the Internet
By now the videocassette-recorder story is familiar.
Dec. 30, 1987
Sony Corp. agreed Monday to pay at least $40 million to Ampex Corp. to resolve a dispute over patents related to digital cameras, sending Ampex shares soaring 90%, their biggest one-day jump ever.
Nov. 30, 2004
Business
Ampex Corp. lost an $8.1-million jury award after a federal judge ruled that Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp. hadn’t infringed a patent used to make a type of TV receiver.
June 19, 1997
Ampex, the Redwood City, Calif.
April 4, 1986
Ampex Corp. said it has agreed to acquire Irvine-based MicroNet Technology Inc. for 700,000 shares, $3.5 million in preferred stock and $6 million in debt.
July 1, 1998
The question spoke impatience and a certain exhaustion with the whole subject of U.S. competitiveness with Japan: “Does it really matter if a Japanese company makes more money than one of ours?”
Nov. 4, 1986
Legal: Company must prove comments are libelous before court will demand that Web-poster’s identity be revealed, judge says.
Dec. 11, 2001
The Morris Township, N.J.
April 7, 1987
And the winner is . . . Odetics Inc.?
Oct. 11, 1990