Smiley, sometimes referred to as a smiley face, is a basic ideogram that represents a smiling face.
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11 Facts About Smiley
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Today, The Smiley Company holds many rights to the smiley ideogram and has become one of the biggest licensing companies globally.
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Smiley has since become a broader term that often includes both the ideogram design, but emojis that use the same yellow and black design.
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Smiley used it to highlight the good news parts of the newspaper France Soir.
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The Smiley Company is one of the 100 biggest licensing companies in the world, with a turnover of US$167 million in 2012.
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The first Smiley shop opened in London in the Boxpark shopping centre in December 2011.
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Smiley is the printable version of characters 1 and 2 of codepage 437 of the first IBM PC and all subsequent PC compatible computers.
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Smiley face was included in Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols from version 1.
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Smiley has now become synonymous with culture across the world.
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Smiley used the smiley in 2005 to replace the face of the grim reaper.
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In June 2010, Wal-Mart and The Smiley Company founded by Loufrani settled their 10-year-old dispute in front of the Chicago federal court.
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