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IGN is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. IGN features articles on games, films, anime, television, comics, technology, and other media. Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is also distributed on mobile platforms, console programs available on the Xbox and Pl
Gameloft
Gameloft SE is a French major video game company based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 11 development studios worldwide, and publishes games for mobile devices, video game consoles, and PC. Formerly a public company traded at the Paris Bourse, Gameloft was acquired by French investment company Vivendi in 2016. The group successfully diversified into PC and console games in addition to the mobile market starting in 2022.
Toei Animation
Japanese animation studio
Rakuten Group, Inc.
is a Japanese technology conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 1997 by Hiroshi Mikitani, the company operates a global ecosystem of internet services centered around its online retail marketplace Rakuten Ichiba.
TV Asahi
Japanese television network
Garmin Group
Garmin Ltd. is an American multinational technology company based in Olathe, Kansas. The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communication, sensor-based, and information products to the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoors, and sport markets.
Krispy Kreme
American global doughnut company and coffeehouse chain
NetEase
NetEase, Inc. () is a Chinese developer and publisher of online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services, and e-commerce platforms. It is one of the largest Internet and video game companies in the world and was founded by Ding Lei in June 1997.
Palm, Inc.
1992–2010 American electronics company
Energizer Holdings, Inc.
Energizer Holdings, Inc. is an American manufacturer and one of the world's largest manufacturers of batteries, headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. It produces batteries under the Energizer, Ray-O-Vac, Varta, and Eveready brand names and formerly owned several personal care businesses until it separated that side of the business into a new company called Edgewell Personal Care in 2015.
MetLife
MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, with around 90 million customers in over 60 countries. The firm was founded on March 24, 1868. MetLife ranked No. 43 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Hudson Soft
Japanese video game publisher
Sohu
thumb|Sohu.com Media Plaza thumb|Sohu.com Internet Plaza Sohu, Inc. () is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine (Sogou.com), on-line multiplayer gaming (ChangYou.com) and other services.
Marvell Technology
American fabless semiconductor company
Illumina
American company that develops systems for the analysis of genetic variation
Nuance Communications
American company developing imaging and voice recognition software
Chunghwa Telecom
Taiwanese telecommunications company
Equinix
Equinix Inc. is an American multinational internet and data center company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It specialized in internet connectivity and data center colocation centers, commonly known as carrier hotels until the company converted to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in January 2015. It is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol EQIX. As of 2025, the company operates 260 data centers in 33 countries, across five continents and employed more than 13,000 people worldwide.
onsemi
ON Semiconductor Corporation (stylized and doing business as onsemi) is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Products include power and signal management, logic, discrete, and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications. onsemi runs a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. Based on its 2016 revenues of $3.907 billion, onsemi ranked among the worldwide top 20 semiconductor
eMachines
eMachines was a brand of economical personal computers. In 2004, it was acquired by Gateway, Inc., which was in turn acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007. The eMachines brand was discontinued in 2013.
Bank Central Asia
Indonesian company
Intuitive Surgical
American corporation
Embarcadero Technologies
company
Intersil
thumb|Logo used while operating under General Electric
CyberAgent
is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate, which was founded in 1998 by Susumu Fujita and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is owned by Susumu Fujita with 20.50% interest; Fujita is the representative director, while Yusuke Hidaka is the executive vice president.
California Pizza Kitchen
casual dining restaurant franchise founded in California with an established brand mostly in the United States
Mondo TV
Italian production and television distribution company
John Hancock Insurance
American insurance company
SBI Holdings
Parent company of the SBI group (Japanese financial conglomerate)
Sabre Corporation
American travel technology company
Mediacom
Mediacom Communications Corporation is the United States' fifth-largest cable television provider based on the number of video subscribers, and among the leading cable operators focused on serving smaller cities and towns. The company has a significant concentration of customers in the Midwest and Southeast, and is the largest broadband provider in Iowa. Founded in 1995 by Rocco B. Commisso, Mediacom is headquartered in New York and incorporated in Delaware, United States. Formerly a publicly traded firm, it went private in a $600 million transaction in March 2011.
Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine
Chinese pharmaceutical company
Forcepoint
Forcepoint is an American multinational corporation software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that develops computer security software and data protection, cloud access security broker, firewall and cross-domain solutions.
Meezan Bank
Islamic commercial bank located in Pakistan
Packaging Corporation of America
packaging and Logistics Firm
Impresa
Impresa Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA () is a Portuguese media conglomerate, headquartered in Paço de Arcos, in Oeiras municipality. It is the owner of SIC TV channel, and Expresso newspaper, among other leading media, like several magazine publications. A third online business segment was launched under the name Impresa Digital.
Liveperson Inc.
LivePerson is a global technology company that develops conversational commerce and AI software.
Community Health Systems
the largest provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States
Exelixis
Exelixis, Inc. is a genomics-based drug discovery company located in Alameda, California, and the producer of Cometriq, a treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medullary thyroid cancer with clinical activity in several other types of metastatic cancer.
webMethods
webMethods was an enterprise software company focused on application integration, business process integration and B2B partner integration.
Charles River Laboratories
major US biomedical company
Entravision Communications
American media company
First Media
Indonesian company