Tropical Storm Vamei was a Pacific tropical cyclone that formed closer to the equator than any other tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean.
 The last storm of the 2001 Pacific typhoon season, Vamei developed on December 26 at 1.4° N in the South China Sea.
 It strengthened quickly and made landfall along extreme southeastern Peninsular Malaysia.
 Vamei rapidly dissipated over Sumatra on December 28, and the remnants eventually re-organized in the North Indian Ocean.
Mike deGruy (December 29, 1951 – February 4, 2012) was an American documentary filmmaker specialising in underwater cinematography.
 His credits include "Life in the Freezer", "Trials of Life", "The Blue Planet" and "Pacific Abyss".
 He was also known for his storytelling, most notably, a passionate TED talk about his love of the ocean on the Mission Blue Voyage.
 His company, Film Crew Inc., specialized in underwater cinematography, filming for BBC, PBS, National Geographic, and The Discovery Channel.
 His notable accomplishments include diving beneath thermal vents in both the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
 He was a member of many deep sea expeditions and was a part of the team that first filmed the vampire squid and the nautilus.
 He was also part of the Deepsea Challenge, where James Cameron went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
 In 2016, production began on a feature-film documentary about his life and work titled Diving Deep.
 The documentary is planned for release in 2017.
 Additionally, Mike was well-known for his shark attack on April 2, 1978 by a grey reef shark, and was severely bitten on his lower right forearm, from which he bore scars.
Arroyo de en Medio (Spanish for "in the middle creek") is a 2.5 mi coastal stream in western San Mateo County, California.
 Arroyo de en Medio rises on the western slopes of Montara Mountain and discharges to the Pacific Ocean at Half Moon Bay at the location of the unincorporated community of Miramar at Miramar Beach.
 The watershed of Arroyo de en Medio consists of relatively permeable sandy soils capable of significant recharge to its aquifers, which supply considerable potable water to the local area.
 "Arroyo" is Spanish for creek; "de en Medio" means literally "of in between" but a closer more functional translation may be "in the middle".
Synchrony Financial is a consumer financial services company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
 The company offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, installment lending, and FDIC insured savings products through Synchrony Bank, its wholly owned subsidiary.
The Intermontane Islands were a giant chain of active volcanic islands somewhere in the Pacific Ocean during the Triassic time beginning around 245 million years ago.
 They were 600 to 800 mi long and rode atop a microplate known as the Intermontane Plate.
 Over early Jurassic time the Intermontane Islands and the Pacific Northwest drew closer together as the continent moved west and the Intermontane Plate subducted.
 About 180 million years ago in the Mid-Jurassic time the last of the Intermontane Plate subducted and the Intermontane Islands collided with the Pacific Northwest, forming parts of British Columbia, Canada.
 The Intermontane Islands were too big to sink beneath the continent, and welded onto the continent, forming the Intermontane Belt.
 Geologists call the ocean that existed between the Intermontane Islands and North America the Slide Mountain Ocean.
Techonomy Media Inc. is an American conference and media company founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, NY.
 Techonomy organizes the annual invitation-only thought leadership Techonomy conference, which focuses on how the accelerating advancement of technology is transforming business and can help address the world's pressing needs.
 It is led by David Kirkpatrick (author), a former technology editor of Fortune.
 Business and tech executives such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt of Google have all participated.
 Its current advisory board consists of Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, and Padmasree Warrior of Cisco, among others.
The New Mexican Railway Company was incorporated in the Territorial Legislature of New Mexico on Feb 2, 1860, prior to the beginning of the American Civil War.
 Corporate members were Henry Connelly, Antonio J. Otero, who served as a justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court; Ambrosio Armijo (the father of Colonel Perfecto Armijo); José Felipe Chavez, Francisco Chavez; Spruce M. Baird, a judge sent by Texas during the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico to organize their claimed land east of the Rio Grande as the Santa Fe county of Texas; Francisco Perea, José Leandro Perea, who was the uncle of Francisco, Charles B. Clark, José Guadalupe Gallegos, Stephen Boice, William H. Moore, Ceran St. Vrain, Thomas C. de Baca, Merrill Ashurst, Duff Green, John Titus, David R. Porter, Oliver W. Barney, and Philip L. Fox.
 The "Memorial of the New Mexican Railway Company, in Relation to the Pacific Railroad" was introduced by Miguel Antonio Otero in the United States Congress on May 21, 1860.
 It was an argument in favor of the southern route for a transcontinental railroad.
 Arguments over the central vs. southern route were a part of the complex of insoluble relations between states, dating back to James Gadsden's involvement in 1845 (as described in the discussion under the Gadsden Purchase).
 These arguments contributed to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
 The New Mexican Railway Company was formed in conjunction with the attempt to retain rights of in-state railroad construction oversight within the Territorial government.
 The act of incorporation stated that company rights and privileges would be forfeited if construction had not begun within a period of five years.
 Beginning in 1862, after the outbreak of Civil War, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad of California were granted lands and construction privileges for the First Transcontinental Railroad project under the Pacific Railway Acts.
 Construction of this Overland Route was begun in 1863 and completed in 1869.
 The southern route did not become a reality until 1883, when the Southern Pacific Railroad linked New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico with Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.
Appirio, a Wipro Company.
 is an information technology consulting company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana (United States) that offers technology and professional services to companies wishing to adopt public cloud applications.
 This includes Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies like Okta, Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Workday, Concur, Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. and Amazon Web Services.
The United States Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMFPAC) is the largest maritime landing force in the world.
 Its units are spread across the Pacific Ocean and reports to the United States Pacific Command.
 It is headquartered at MCB Camp H. M. Smith, HI and directs and commands all the subordinate elements of the Navy Expeditionary Strike Force and Marine Air-Ground Task Force components that follow under the 3rd, 5th, and 7th Fleet and the Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC).
 The Commanding General of Marine Corps Forces, Pacific is dual-posted as the Commanding General of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.
 FMFPAC is under operational control of the Commander, United States Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), when deployed.
salesforce.com, inc. (styled in its logo as sales"ƒ"orce; abbreviated usually as "SF" or "SFDC") is an American cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
 Though its revenue comes from a customer relationship management (CRM) product, Salesforce also capitalizes on commercial applications of social networking through acquisition.
 As of early 2016, it is one of the most highly valued American cloud computing companies with a market capitalization above $61 billion.
 In August 2017, Salesforce announced that it had breached the $10 billion revenue run rate becoming the first enterprise cloud company to do so.

Question: Which company is headquartered closer to the pacific ocean, Salesforce.com or Synchrony Financial?
Answer: salesforce.com