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In 1951, Dr. Wang, who was nicknamed The Doctor by his employees, began Wang Laboratories as an electrical fixtures store with $600. He was the only employee working in his office — a $70 a ...
There`s been a lot of pain and suffering in the computer industry this quarter and last. Wang Laboratories Inc. seems to be feeling more than its share, and the troubles may continue for some time.
During coverage of the Republican National Convention, newsman Dan Rather warned that President Bush would have to answer to the American voter for a dismal domestic economy. As proof of the countr… ...
Wang Laboratories Inc., the troubled office-automation company, announced Wednesday it anticipates a loss from operations for its fiscal fourth quarter, ending June 30. The company added that it wo… ...
An Wang, the shy engineer from Shanghai who built a $600 investment into a multibillion-dollar computer company, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 70 and still chairman and chie… ...
At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had 23,000 employees and annual revenues of $2 billion. In the early 1990s, however, the company fell on hard times in the face of competition from ...
An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology invented by Dr. Wang helped drive the industry during its nascent days in ...
LOWELL – Kety Popova, 80, a longtime Lowell resident and a former employee at Wang Laboratories who had also been soloist in a classical choir in her native Bulgaria, died Monday, Dec. 23. Sh… ...
Most companies emblematic of the region's high-tech heyday are history, but their employees remain connected decades after the doors closed for good. Digital Equipment Corp., Data General and Wang ...
LOWELL — Joseph P. Paquette, a Nashua native and Lowell resident who had been a longtime employee at Wang Laboratories, died Monday, March 13, in Danvers. He was 71.He was born in Nashua on S… ...
An Wang may not have invented the word processor, but the company he founded, Wang Laboratories, played a key role in putting word processing technology in every corner of the modern office. And ...