BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Pixar
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Industrial Light & Magic
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DreamWorks
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Blue Sky
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Detailed explanation-1: -Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011) was one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios. A business magnate and inventor, he was the former CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the early 2000s, when Pixar was making movies on its own, Disney was desperate to catch up. Jobs sold the company to Disney in January 2006 for $7.4 billion. After the acquisition, Jobs owned roughly 7% of Disney, making him the single largest shareholder.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Lucasfilm computer division, before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986, with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became the majority shareholder.