Gett, formerly GetTaxi, brought a rival black car service to New York City for the first time this fall.
Bing Shopping saw a "nearly a 3x increase in site visits and a 5.42% increase in transactions to Bing cashback" during the month of June, and Bing Travel (formerly Farecast) got a 90percentt boost to traffic versus May, 2009 simply by becoming the default travel tab for Bing.
Finally, Jaron Benjamin, a lead organizer at Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL-NY) and his colleagues have been heroically making their way between their home office in Brooklyn and shelters in Manhattan to ensure VOCAL's constituency (people living with HIV/AIDS, drug users and the formerly incarcerated) get needed relief supplies.
WHEN Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) got independence from Britain in 1964, it was one of Africa's richest and most developed countries.
At a congress held every five years, this time in Mangaung, formerly Bloemfontein, he got three-quarters of the 3,977 votes cast by the delegates.Kgalema Motlanthe, his deputy, came a distant second, outshone by Cyril Ramaphosa, one of South Africa's richest men, who was drafted in by the president to replace Mr Motlanthe as his number two.
Some (formerly) rich people got euchred.
For starters Ms. Free, formerly known as Fran Gunsaulis, got divorced and now uses her maiden name.
The Cleveland-based sports-marketing firm IMG, formerly known as International Management Group, got in on the action in 1987 when it purchased the academy for $700 million.
The Miami Marlins, formerly the Florida Marlins, got more than a name change Friday night.
