Prior to its acquisition by Chevron, Unocal settled a similar human rights lawsuit for a reported multi-million dollar amount.

Prior to this acquisition, QNX software was already widely used in the automotive industry for telematics systems.

Prior to the acquisition, it was traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol IMCL.

Prior to the acquisition of Inktomi by Yahoo!

Prior to the acquisition, it was the third largest private express delivery company in the United States.

Prior to the acquisition of Sim developer Maxis by Electronic Arts in 1997, plans were originally made in 1996 to develop SimCity 3000 as a fully 3D game, in tune with the emergence ( at the time ) of 3D computer and video games.

Prior to the acquisition by John Jay, it was De Witt Clinton High School.

Prior to the acquisition in 1973, the building was formerly a shoe factory.

Prior to acquisition by Northrop Grumman, the company was founded to develop experimental aircraft, but now focuses on designing and developing concept craft and prototype fabrication processes for aircraft and other vehicles.

Prior to CHUM's acquisition of CKVU, some Citytv programming was syndicated to KVOS in nearby Bellingham, Washington.

Prior to TWA's acquisition by American Airlines, Gulfstream operated as a part of the Trans World Connection network as TWConnection.

Prior to its acquisition by AMR Corporation and its integration into American Eagle route network, Business Express linked many smaller localities directly to American Airlines expansive nation and worldwide route network.

Prior to its acquisition by ClientLogic, described below, it had 70 call centers in 25 countries and over 30, 000 employees.

Prior to its acquisition by MOL Global, Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, IDG Ventures, and individual investors.

Prior to its acquisition by Carnival Corporation, Costa Cruises was one of the largest cruise ship operators in Europe.

Prior to the acquisition of the Fairmont chain, CP Hotels operated two hotels in Israel, three in Germany and one in the United States.

Prior to the acquisition of the brewing assets by Lion Nathan in 1993, SA Brewing split its brewing assets into " SA Brewing Holdings ", and its diversified operations were formed into a new listed company named Southcorp.

Prior to its 2001 acquisition by Citytv's former parent company CHUM Limited, CKVU previously operated as an independent station and then later became a Global owned-and-operated station in 1997.

Prior to its acquisition by Cobham plc, SPARTA was unusual for a U. S. defense contractor in that it was publicly held but privately traded ; it was more than 98 % owned by its 1, 300 employees.

Prior to the acquisition, some benefits and company procedures were decided upon by a council of employees which met annually.

Prior to World War II, principal shareholder and Austrian industrialist Peter Paul Von Bauer secretly sold his shares to the Pan American World Airways in an attempt to protect the airline from acquisition by the Nazi government.

Prior to its acquisition by Garda, the company had an active local and national presence, participating in local events such as parades and Laurel, Montana's Aviation and Technology Week.

Prior to the acquisition, the # 4 was made famous by Morgan-McClure Motorsports.

Prior to acquisition by Taylor University, Summit Christian College was affiliated with the Missionary Church.

Prior to this date, the small island country of 12, 000 had an export economy based on agriculture, clothing, electronic parts and plants, with a per capita gross national product of USD 3, 000 to 8, 000.

Prior to the 1997 merger, Young America was known as being one of the two cities where correspondences for consumer product contests went to, the other being Blair, Nebraska.

Prior to the STB merger finalizing, some of 3dfx's OEMs warned the company that any product from Juarez will not be deemed fit to ship with their systems, however 3dfx management believed these problems could be addressed over time.

Prior to the advent by North Electric of the proprietary ' LOCOTROL ' name, the product was referred to as ' RCE ' ( Radio Controlled Equipment ) or ' RCS ' ( Radio Control System ) and the lead and remote units as ' master ' and ' slave '.

Prior to using Keynote, Jobs had used Concurrence, from Lighthouse Design, a similar product which ran on the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep platforms.

Prior to being made available as a stand-alone product in 1994, LightWave required the presence of a Video Toaster in an Amiga to run.

Prior spokespersons associated with the product were actresses Lynn Redgrave and Jenny McCarthy, and Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson.

Prior to the development of ViaVoice, IBM developed a product named VoiceType.

Prior to the conference, the appearance of the box art on GameStop's product page caused speculation the game would be a launch title.

Prior to CSA International, product testing and certification services were provided by the laboratories of the Canadian Standards Association ( CSA ), which was originally founded in 1919 as the Canadian Engineering Standards Association ( CESA ).

" Prior to these, Bart Simpson, and other characters from Fox's The Simpsons, appeared in numerous advertisements for the product from 1990 to 2001, with the slogans " Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!

Prior to bottling all finished product undergoes " finish " filtration using the equipment of PALL German Firm, allowing to compare it with the mountain crystal by the purity and transparency.

Prior to 1 January 2000, these regulations applied to most pre-packaged food but on that date, they were extended to cover selling transactions where the product was weighed in front of the customer.

In this role, he shared leadership and management of AMD with former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of AMD Hector Ruiz .< ref > Executives <, Advanced Micro Devices .</ ref > Prior to this role, Meyer served as president and chief operating officer of AMD ’ s Microprocessor Solutions Sector where he had overall responsibility for AMD ’ s microprocessor business, including product development, manufacturing, operations and product marketing.

Prior to the release of the Hatsune Miku product, Crypton Future Media had also noted there was some criticism at choosing to release the original Vocaloid engine as a commercial licensing product, although felt that the choice was for the better of the engine.

Prior to 1906, shoe polish was not well known as a purchasable product, nor was it particularly sophisticated.

Prior to the development of DAM, Apple had purchased a database middleware product they sold as the Data Access Language, or DAL.

Prior to Netscape, Kordestani held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.

Prior to the release of Apple's phone product, the market for mobile applications ( outside of games ) had been quite limited.

Prior to September 2006 when Macromedia products were added to the Acrobat product line, Adobe Connect was Macromedia Breeze.

Prior to founding Central Desktop, Isaac and Arnulf started Upgradebase in 1997, a product data provider to the computer and consumer electronics industry, and Vendorbase in 1999, a B2B marketplace for computer resellers.

Prior to the show, Song worked as a manager in product development at an investment bank in New York, NY where she had started as an executive assistant five years prior.