User:Tortlieb/Corbis
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Seattle, Washington, USA (1989) |
| Headquarters |  Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Key people | Bill Gates, Founder Steve Davis, President & CEO |
| Industry | Digital image licensing, rights services, artist representation and media management |
| Website | pro.corbis.com |
Corbis is a digital imaging/stock photography company founded by Bill Gates in 1989. Its headquarters are located in Seattle, Washington. Among other company operations, Corbis archives over 11,000,000 photographs and other media in a facility deep within a former limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania (Butler County, Pennsylvania). The mine presents a secure and climate-controlled environment for the preservation of photographic media.
[edit] Timeline
- 1989: Founded by Bill Gates as Interactive Home Systems. Steve Arnold named the first CEO. [1]
- 1992: Company renamed Continuum Productions Corporation [2]
- 1992: UK Office Opens (Sheffield Digital)
- 1994: Company renamed Corbis. The word "Corbis" means woven basket in Latin.
- 1994: Licensing business opens
- 1995: First educational CD-ROM, A Passion for Art, published
- 1995: Bettmann Archive acquired
- 1995: Range agency acquired
- 1995: Starlight Agency acquired
- 1996: Turnley Collection acquired
- 1996: Millionth Image added to collection
- 1997: Steve Davis & Tony Rojas Appointed Co-CEOs
- 1997: LGI Photo Agency acquired
- 1997: Corbis View website launched
- 1997: Corbis Trip website launched
- 1998: Corbis Print & Poster Store launched
- 1998: Digital Stock acquired
- 1998: Westlight acquired
- 1998: Outline Press acquired
- 1999: Sygma acquired
- 2000: Sharpshooters acquired
- 2000: TempSport acquired
- 2000: SABA Press acquired
- 2000: The Stock Market acquired
- 2001: Film Preservation Facility opened; Bettmann collection moved.
- 2001: Sekani acquired
- 2001: Corbis Newsroom site launched
- 2001: Chicago office opens
- 2001: Hong Kong office opens
- 2001: Tokyo office opens with amana partnership
- 2002: Germany, Austria and the Netherlands offices opened
- 2002: Sekani renamed Corbis Motion
- 2002: Web sites integrated to single site, pro.corbis.com
- 2005: Canada, China and Singapore offices opened
- 2005: eMotion acquired
- 2005: zefa acquired
- 2005: Roger Richman Agency acquired
- 2005: image100 acquired
- 2006: Beateworks, Beateworks@home, InsideOutPix acquired
