The Smiley Company (redirect from Franklin Loufrani)
"smiling face." Loufrani was not the first documented person to use the term "smiley." By the 1990s, Franklin and his son Nicolas Loufrani held trademarks...
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set, from 2000 onwards. The digital smiley movement was headed up by Nicolas Loufrani, the CEO of The Smiley Company. In 2001, The Smiley Company developed...
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Company. In 1996 Loufrani's son Nicolas Loufrani took over the family business and built it into a multinational corporation. Nicolas Loufrani was outwardly...
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many of these would not be available as Unicode emoji until 2014. Nicolas Loufrani applied to the US Copyright Office in 1999 to register the 471 smileys...
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a plugin created by Nicolas Loufrani in the late 90s to allow people to send emoticons online. Unlike Kurita's designs, Loufrani focused solely on smiley...
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and the acronym LOL. In 1996, The Smiley Company was established by Nicolas Loufrani and his father Franklin as a way of commercializing the smiley trademark...
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Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2018) 1942 – Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company 1943 – Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian...
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