The now defunct service debuted in 1965 with a computer algorithm that paired couples in the Boston area together for dates.
Over the years, PWI has also worked with Disney's now defunct service Disney Mobile and all four major U.S. operators.
Proceeds were said to have been laundered via digital currencies including Bitcoin and the defunct service Liberty Reserve.
Since then, Mr Horie has made a fortune: first by listing his company on Mothers, a stockmarket for start-ups run by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and then by using the profits to buy livedoor, a defunct internet-service provider.
Eran Hammer-Lahav, now an open-standards evangelist at Yahoo, worked on similar problems while building a (now defunct) microblogging service called Nouncer.
Another hopeful, People Express, wants to revive a defunct brand known for its low-fare service to provide direct service between Newport News, Va., and places like Providence, R.I., and Pittsburgh on the East Coast, and Orlando in Florida.
The investigation focuses on a defunct subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based Lender Processing Services, the nation's largest subcontractor of mortgage servicing duties for banks.
In a 1996 bid to seize the residential market, LodgeNet invested $30 million to hook up with GE Capital-ResCom, a defunct unit of General Electric, to bring video-on-demand and telephone service to apartments.
In a bid to seize the residential market, LodgeNet invested $30 million to hook up with GE Capital-ResCom LP in 1996, a defunct unit of General Electric, to bring video-on-demand and telephone service to apartments.
They next established a full-service commercial bank, Uneximbank, and tapped the clients of a defunct Soviet-era giant, VE Bank, which used to handle most of the U.S.S.R.'s foreign trade finance.
Last year, Nicholas Merrill, the owner of a now-defunct internet service provider, got a gag order lifted, though it took more than a decade.
