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Welcome to Wikipedia's companies portal, which seeks to analyse companies by country and industry.
There are 1,403 company articles linked to the portal.

Contents: Associated Wikimedia • Categorical index • Did you know? • Index by industry • List of good and featured articles • Related portals • Selected article • Selected picture • Selected ranking • Things you can do

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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, which rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by various versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990's and 2000's.

Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopoly status and anti-competitive business practices including refusal to deal and tying. The U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, have ruled against Microsoft for various antitrust violations.

It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Microsoft's best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.

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Credit: Fir0002
A Cessna 182P, flown in Swifts Creek, Victoria. Cessna Aircraft Company, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, specializing in small, piston-powered aircraft and medium-sized business jets. The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Today employing 9,500 people, Cessna has been a subsidiary of Textron since 1992.

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Did you know ...

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

... that the Corgi Motorcycle Co Ltd.'s Corgi scooter was branded the "Indian Papoose" for the United States market?
... that Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores?
... that Pacnews stopped reporting on Fijian news rather than submit to government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis?
... that Festival Republic has replaced Aiken Promotions as co-organiser of Stradbally Hall's boutique Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival in 2009?
... that the Allaire Iron Works, using pig iron from Howell Works, built more than fifty percent of America's early marine steam engines?
... that Pet Airways is claimed to be the first American airline to fly pets exclusively?

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Selected top 10 ranking

Fortune Global 500 top 10 for 2009
1		Royal Dutch Shell
2		ExxonMobil
3		Wal-Mart
4		BP
5		Chevron
6		Total
7		ConocoPhillips
8		ING Group
9		Sinopec
10		Toyota Motor
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Good and featured articles

Featured articles

BAE Systems · Biman Bangladesh Airlines · El Al · Elderly Instruments · Holden · Icos · Microsoft · NeXT · Odwalla · Oliver Typewriter Company · Scene7 (category...)

Featured lists

Lists of company acquisitions:

Adobe Systems · AOL · Apple · Cisco Systems · Condé Nast · eBay · Electronic Arts · Google · Juniper Networks · Microsoft · Red Hat · Symantec · Yahoo! (category...)

A-Class articles

Blue Network (category...)

Good articles

Airport Express Train · Apollo Management · Arkia Israel Airlines · Blackstone Group · Boosey & Hawkes · Bovet Fleurier · Burger King · Burger King legal issues · Cargolink · Chemetco · Chuck E. Cheese's · Crazy Eddie · Dragonair · Facebook · Grameen Bank · Gulf Oil · Harley Davidson · Hershey Creamery Company · Hochtief · International Speedway Corporation · Israir Airlines · Jay Cooke & Company · Key · Kohlberg Kravis Roberts · Marine Harvest · Mr. Lady Records · Mzoli's · National Westminster Bank · NSB Gjøvikbanen · Ofotbanen · Pearson's Candy Company · Pixar · Poundland · Slackers CDs and Games · Sony/ATV Music Publishing · Transit Authority of River City · TouchWave · Twitter · Union Stock Yards · Wizards of the Coast (category...)

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Things you can do

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: See Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/Businesses and Organizations
Wikify: Barry Callebaut, AED Oil Limited, IOCOM
Cleanup:
- Organizational_retaliatory_behavior - Should probably be merged to Whistle blower
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
- PbNation-This article is currently in the format of a forum, however it is more notable as a company(if it is notable at all) than a forum.
- Essar Group - needs proper introduction section, headers, and better flow
- Expand:
Cameco, Japan Steel Works, Mrs. Fields, BW Gas, BAE Systems Information Technology, IndyMac Bank (in the news as of July 11), AIG
NPOV: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, written almost entirely by a news and public affairs employee at ACES, so needs some neutral eyes to give it a going over to check for both neutrality, and layout/content inclusion, etc.
Other:
- Tag the pages of any company articles with the portal banner
- Tag the talk pages of any company articles with the project banner
- Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them if they would like to join our efforts
- Contribute to discussions on project guidelines and lists
- Identify companies for which articles could be created and either create them or list at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/Businesses and Organizations
- Identify articles for improvement and list here
- Provide Assessment and peer review of Stave Puzzles
- Provide assessment and peer review of Rio Tinto Group