Xerox, an Innovator Hit by Digital Revolution, Cedes Control to Fujifilm<br />Xerox developed an early computer that offered a mouse and graphic screen<br />that allowed the user to navigate across the face of a monitor instead of typing on a keyboard — the very technology used by just about everybody using Apple or Microsoft software today.<br />Xerox, an icon of corporate America that pioneered the office copy machine as well as the graphic interface<br />and mouse used with today’s computers, only to be blindsided by the digital revolution, is coming under Japanese control.<br />Fujifilm would own just over 50 percent of the business, which would aim to cut $1.7 billion in costs in coming years.<br />The company said on Wednesday that it would combine its operations with its joint venture with Fujifilm Holdings of Japan.<br />It won the right to explore a technology, invented by Chester Carlson,<br />that led to the creation of the modern copy machine in 1938, and in 1959 Xerox offered an office copier that popularized the device.<br />Xerox fought Apple in court after the computer company enjoyed tremendous popularity with its Macintosh computers, which used similar technology.
