In 1951, while working at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation — then a subsidiary of Remington Rand — Grace Hopper decided to develop what became the A-0 compiler: a system to automate the manual retrieval and linking of subroutines that programmers were then doing by hand for every new program.

Melinda French Gates founded Pivotal Ventures in 2015.

Sonar was an "ambient social networking" app — show me who's around me right now, who I might know, who I might want to talk to.

Nokia was the dominant mobile phone manufacturer in the world, with a market share above forty per cent, when the iPhone launched in January 2007.