167:). In 2016, UXC was acquired by CSC for $ 430 million. Another former TCG company floated on the New York Stock Exchange in November 1997 for US$ 600m (AU$ 1 billion), making it the largest technology company to be established in Australia until that time. By 2010, the TCG companies, and entities with TCG roots, employ well over 6000 people with a turnover in excess of $ 1.5 billion annually. Today, the TCG Group encompasses some 50 companies with assets in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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technologies, data transmission, management structures and the food industry, including VOIP telephony (1998); design and manufacturing of plastic note sorting machines (1995); lottery ticket validation terminal (1988); mirror microwave communication technology and CT3 technology, first in the world (1986); BOW Memory unit for cash registers (1985); credit card validation system (pioneer technology in secure transmission) and MOX memory unit for building security (1984); low-cost
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Hungarian Academy of Engineering 1998. He is a fellow of the Australian Computer Society, the Institute of Engineers Australia, and the Australian Society of Accountants. His many awards include a Member (AM,
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