Xerox
American document management corporation
Xerox Holdings Corporation (, ZEER-oks) is an American corporation that sells printers, digital document products, and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox was the pioneer of the photocopier market, beginning with the introduction of the Xerox 914 in 1959, so much so that the word xerox is commonly used as a synonym for photocopy. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, though it is incorporated in New York with its largest group of employees based around Rochester, New York, where the company was founded. As a large, established business, it is consistently placed on the Fortune 500 list of companies.
The company purchased Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion in early 2010. On December 31, 2016, Xerox separated its business process service operations, essentially those operations acquired with the purchase of Affiliated Computer Services, into a new publicly traded company, Conduent. Xerox focused on its document technology and document outsourcing business and traded on the NYSE from 1961 to 2021 and on the Nasdaq since 2021.
Researchers at Xerox and its Palo Alto Research Center invented several important elements of personal computing, such as the desktop metaphor GUI, the computer mouse and desktop computing. The concepts were adopted by Apple and later Microsoft.
History
Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as Haloid.
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