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How about an airline run my a record label?
by ngd 11y ago
How about an airline run my a record label?
- supercanuck 11y agoor spaceships.
- timlovelee 11y agoLG makes Shampoo
- meatysnapper 11y agoGiant industrial conglomerates are a totally different case. We are talking about a normal, single-product/field company switching to something totally unrelated. That's totally insane.
- vardump 11y agoSamsung makes killer robots and tankers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1 https://www.shi.samsung.co.kr/eng/Pr/shipstory0201.aspx https://www.shi.samsung.co.kr/eng/Pr/shipstory0201.aspx
- toomuchtodo 11y agoGoogle makes robotic pack dogs for DARPA: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/14/5209622/google-has-bought-robotics-company-boston-dynamics http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/14/5209622/google-has-bought... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w
- digi_owl 11y agoDidn't they drop that contract?
- pcrh 11y agoVirgin is a bit of an exception. At the beginning it merely chartered aircraft run by others; it was a branding exercise rather than managing and running aircraft. Conglomerates like GE do anything and everything, but the companies cited in the article appears to be relatively small, e.g.from making only floorboards to online gaming is quite a shift in operational requirements.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoNokia used to make a big deal about their background in paper mills, rubber boots etc. http://company.nokia.com/en/about-us/our-company/our-story http://company.nokia.com/en/about-us/our-company/our-story
- jpatokal 11y agoNokia had a natural progression though. Rubber, rubber-coated cables and wires, analog telephone switches full of wiring, digital telephone switches full of software, mobile phones that talk to those switches! And this took about a hundred years.