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Dolby makes $734m from IPO

Ray Dolby, owner of the sound technology company that bears his name, made $734m (€563m) on the day his firm went public.

Dolby founded Dolby Laboratories in 1965 and the company developed a technology to remove background noise from tape recordings.

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