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This is a list of notable companies based in the United States. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in the United States".

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Former companies

This list includes former companies and those that were acquired or merged:

Adventure International
Affiliated Computer Services, acquired by Xerox in 2010
Aldus Corp., (merged with Adobe Systems)
AlliedSignal, acquired Honeywell and adopted the Honeywell name.
American Motors Corporation (AMC)
America West Airlines, merged with US Airways in 2005
AmeriCredit, acquired by General Motors in 2010.
Ameritech, now part of AT&T Inc.
Amoco, now part of BP
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Apollo Computer, acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989
Airborne Express
Arbusto Energy
Arco, or Atlantic Richfield Company, acquired by BP Amoco
Arthur Andersen
AT&T Corporation, acquired by SBC Communications (now AT&T Inc.)
AT&T Wireless, acquired by Cingular
Avalon Hill, acquired by Hasbro
Bell Labs, largely acquired by Alcatel-Lucent
Bell Atlantic, now part of Verizon Communications
BellSouth, acquired by AT&T Inc.
Boston Manufacturing Company
Butler International
Cingular, now part of AT&T Inc.
Coleco Inc. (Connecticut Leather Company)
Columbia Records, now part of Sony
Compaq, acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002
CommWorks Corporation acquired by UTStarcom in 2003
Connectix Corp.
Conoco, now part of ConocoPhillips
Continental Airlines, merged with United Airlines in 2010
CSK Auto, acquired by O'Reilly
Data Resources Inc. (DRI)
Digital Equipment Corporation, acquired by Compaq in 1998 (now part of Hewlett-Packard)
Enron
Esso (S.O.) - renamed Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil
Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil
Fox Film Corporation, forerunner of 20th Century Fox
GTE, now part of Verizon Communications
Gulf Oil
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, acquired in 1956 by the Continental Can Company
IGN Entertainment Inc., formerly Snowball Inc., now owned by News Corp.
Infocom Inc.
Kozmo.com
Lehman Brothers
Lighthouse Design, taken over by Sun Microsystems in 1996
Maxis Software Inc., taken over by EA in 1997
Macromedia, taken over by Adobe Systems in 2005
McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing
Merrill Lynch, acquired by Bank of America at year-end 2008
Nabisco (National Biscuit Company), acquired by Kraft
Nashua Manufacturing Company
Netscape, now part of Time Warner
NYNEX, now part of Verizon Communications
Oakley, Inc., acquired by Luxottica Group S.p.A.
Orange Micro
Pacific Bell, now part of AT&T Inc.
PageNet
Palm, Inc., was split into PalmOne, Inc. and PalmSource, Inc.
Pan American World Airways
PeopleSoft, acquired by Oracle Corporation
Phillips Petroleum Company, now part of ConocoPhillips
Rockwell International
Sara Lee Corporation, acquired by Mexican bakery giant Grupo Bimbo
Siebel Systems, acquired by Oracle Corporation
Sierra Entertainment Inc. (formerly Sierra On-Line)
Southern New England Telephone, now part of AT&T Inc.
Southwestern Bell or SBC Communications, now called AT&T Inc.
Standard Oil
Standard Oil of Indiana, later became Amoco, still later acquired by BP
Standard Oil of Ohio, or Sohio, now part of BP
Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle Corporation
Texaco, now part of Chevron Corporation
TSR, Inc., acquired and discontinued
Union Carbide, now part of Dow Chemical Company
Universal Studios, now part of NBCUniversal (controlled by General Electric)
Unocal Corporation (Unocal), acquired by Chevron Corporation
URS Corporation, acquired by AECOM
US WEST, now part of Qwest
Wachovia, now part of Wells Fargo
Washington Mutual, now part of JPMorgan Chase
Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA), now Global Insight
WorldCom, renamed MCI

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