26Brazilian iPhone
A Brazilian electronics company is legally allowed to call their phone ‘iPhone’ because they trademarked the word in 2000, 7 years prior to Apple’s iPhone. Their phone runs on Android.
27. In 2009, Amazon sold diapers at a $100 million loss to scare Diapers.com into selling them their business or face running into the ground.
28. In 1994, IBM released a cell phone named IBM Simon that had a touch screen and e-mail capabilities. It could also send and receive faxes, work as a pager, and was considered the world's first smartphone due to its features and capabilities.
29. In 2012, the CEO of Lenovo received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 employees of Lenovo. He did this again in 2013.
30. In 2018, Samsung accidentally issued 2,000 employees 1,000 shares of stock for 37 minutes before realizing the error. About 16 employees sold their shares during that time for approx. $9,000,000 each.
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In 2014, black taxi cab drivers of London brought parts of the city to a standstill, protesting against Uber. This led to an 850% increase in downloads of Uber.
32. Hitachi once produced an ATM that heated bills to 200 degrees Celsius to kill any bacteria and then ironed them before dispensing.
33. When Android was unveiled in 2007, Nokia was quoted as saying “we don't see this as a threat,” and a member of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile team stated, “I don't understand the impact that they are going to have.”
34. In 2012, Facebook altered the number of positive and negative posts in the news feeds of 689,003 randomly selected users to see if they could make the users more happy or sad. They published the results of this experiment in an academic paper.
35. In 1930 two brothers created the first car radio which they named a “motorized victrola” which they then shortened to Motorola.
