Just hire a CMO and set him to only use your own or subsidiary media. Problem solved.

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I also voted yes for this. Have wanted this level of detail to be available for forever.

For computer OS, you need a software firm (or 4) and put tech functional units into it, then you can hire team leads and research each of the 3 computer OS techs. There's Computer OS Core, Computer OS Display, and Computer OS Input. You need each of those 3 techs to be above 30, and then you need a ...