Web standards are the formal, non-proprietary standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for building web sites, and a philosophy of web design and development that includes those methods.
Gaggia is an Italian manufacturer of coffee machines, especially espresso machines, in addition to small kitchen appliances. The company is owned by the Evoca Group.
Trenitalia SpA is the primary train operator of Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself partly owned by the Italian government, the company is owned publicly and partly private from a private investors group. It was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail transport.
Gratis Internet was an American referral marketing company based in Washington D.C. that rewarded customers with technological consumer products of high-demand such as the iPod and PlayStation 3. In 2004, it became a member of the Inc. 500 and in 2005 ranked eighteenth. Its name comes from the Latin word Gratis, meaning "free of charge". The company stopped operating entirely or was bought by another company around 2010.
Tessellis S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company founded in 1998 and based in Cagliari, Sardinia, that provides Internet and telecommunications services in Italy, and, previously had operations in other European nations through its acquisition of many smaller European Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the late 1990s.
FASTWEB S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company that provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadband Internet and IPTV services. It is also one of the prominent companies in Italy providing FTTH connections, and is a subsidiary of the Swiss telecommunication company Swisscom AG.
Poste Italiane is the Italian postal service provider. Besides providing postal services, Italian Post Group offers communications, postal savings products, logistics, and financial and insurance services throughout Italy.
Giovanni Agnelli was an Italian businessman. He cofounded Fiat S.p.A, an automotive industrial company, in 1899.
Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A., trading as Wind, was an Italian telecommunications company which offered mobile telephony services and, through Infostrada, also fixed-line telephony services, Internet and IPTV. It was owned by the telecommunications group VimpelCom through their subsidiary Wind Telecom.
The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy is .it and is sponsored by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states.
Silvio Scaglia is a Swiss-born media and technological entrepreneur. Scaglia is the founder of FASTWEB, an Italian telecommunications company. He also founded Freedom Holding, a holding company that controls the Elite World Group. In 2020, he founded SHS management, an AI-powered asset management company.
Radio DeeJay is an Italian radio station. It was founded on 1 February 1982 by the Italian radio and television personality Claudio Cecchetto and was acquired by the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (GEDI) in 1989. In 2020, Exor became the owner of GEDI and consequently of Radio DeeJay.
Virgilio was the first web portal in Italy. Started in 1996 as a web search engine and web directory manually edited by its own editors, based on the Yahoo! model, it has gradually evolved as a general portal with different content, webmail services, search engine, chat, and a web community.
GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A., formerly known as Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso S.p.A., is an Italian media conglomerate. Founded in 1955, it is based in Turin, Italy.
Carlo De Benedetti is an Italian industrialist, engineer, and publisher. He is both an Italian and naturalized Swiss citizen. He was awarded the Order of Merit for Labour by the Italian state in 1983, the Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte and the Legion d'Honneur in 1987.
Fabio Massimo Cacciatori is an Italian entrepreneur and film producer. Currently he is Managing Partner at A&G Management Consulting and Chairman of the software and computer systems development company E.magine.
OpNet S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company specializing in wireless broadband connection.
TIMvision is an Italian Internet video on demand service by Telecom Italia.
JoyCut are an Italian electronic, dark wave, post-rock band based in Bologna. Their music includes a weaving of powerful sonic moments using a mass of electronics, orchestral breathings, cinematic saturations, tribal drumming and industrial percussion with found objects from the urban landscape.
Blu S.p.A. was an Italian telecommunications company operating in the mobile telephony sector.
