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Financial Times
London-based daily newspaper
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic has been owned by RhythmOne since 2015.
AOL
AOL Media LLC (formerly a predecessor company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and former online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons.
Aer Lingus
flag-carrier airline of Ireland
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
aerospace manufacturer in the United States
Dailymotion
thumb|Head office: 140 Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris, France
Pininfarina
Pininfarina S.p.A. ( , ; short for Pininfarina Società per Azioni) is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder, with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. The company was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930. On 14 December 2015, the Indian multinational Mahindra Group acquired 76.06% of Pininfarina S.p.A. for about €168 million.
H. J. Heinz Company
The H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as Heinz (), was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactured food products on six continents, and marketed them in more than 200 countries and territories. The company claimed to have 150 number-one or number-two brands worldwide . Heinz ranked first in ketchup in the US with a market share in excess of 50%; the Ore-Ida label held 46% of the frozen potato sector in 2003.
Endemol
Endemol B.V. (stylized in all lowercase) was a Dutch-based media company that produced and distributed multiplatform entertainment content. The company annually produced more than 15,000 hours of programming across scripted and non-scripted genres, including drama, reality TV, comedy, game shows, entertainment, factual and children's programming.
South China Morning Post
Hong Kong newspaper
TV Guide
bi-weekly magazine that provides television program listings information entertainment-related news
Freescale Semiconductor
American company
Century Media Records
German record label
Periscope
mobile live video streaming application
DirecTV
DirecTV, LLC (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California. Originally launched on June 17, 1994, its primary service is distributing virtual multichannel video programming as well as satellite services for consumers and businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico. Its primary competitors are Dish Network and other traditional cable television providers, IP-based television services, and other over-the-top video services.
Skrill
Skrill is part of Paysafe Limited, a global payments platform. It is one of Paysafe's digital wallet brands and was established in 2001 to offer multiple online payment and money transfer services. Skrill operates in more than 100 countries with the digital wallet offered in more than 40 currencies. The company facilitates multiple payment options including card payments, bank transfers and local payment methods. The funds in a Skrill account can then be used to pay merchants and other Skrill users or converted into cryptocurrency.
Miniclip
Miniclip is a Swiss mobile game publisher and former browser game website first launched on 30 March 2001. It was founded by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie with a budget of £40,000. In 2008, the company was valued at over £275 million. Ten years later, Miniclip generated more than $400 million in revenue from its mobile game, 8 Ball Pool.
Lafarge
French industrial company
Kraft Foods Group
American grocery manufacturing and processing conglomerate, formed as a spin-off from Kraft Foods Inc.
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entertainment news website
Altera
Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015 before becoming independent once again in 2025 as a company focused on development of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology and system on a chip FPGAs.
Toronto Argonauts
Canadian football team based in Toronto, Canada
Perforce Zend
Company name
Hutchison Whampoa
former Hong Kong investment holding company, merged into CK Hutchison Holdings
OpenDNS
OpenDNS is an American company providing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution services—with features such as phishing protection, optional content filtering, and DNS lookup in its DNS servers—and a cloud computing security product suite, Umbrella, designed to protect enterprise customers from malware, botnets, phishing, and targeted online attacks. The OpenDNS Global Network processes an estimated 100 billion DNS queries daily from 85 million users through 25 data centers worldwide.
Safeway
Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain that provides grocery items and general merchandise along with various specialty departments such as bakery, delicatessen, floral, and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops and vehicle fuel centers. Safeway's primary base of operations is in the Western United States, with some stores located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern Seaboard.
Wella
Wella is a multinational hair care and cosmetics company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It develops, manufactures, and distributes professional and consumer hair and nail products, including coloring, styling, and hair care lines. Founded in 1880 in Germany by Franz Ströher, the company has undergone multiple ownership transitions. Since 2020, it has operated as an independent entity, majority-owned by private equity firm KKR following its separation from Coty Inc.
RadioShack
RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer that was established in 1921 as a mail-order business focused on amateur radio. Its parent company was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962; Tandy ended mail order, shifted to retail by opening small stores staffed by people who knew electronics, greatly reduced the number of items carried, and replaced name-brand products with private-label items from lower-cost manufacturers. These moves were successful and the brand grew.
Holcim
Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates flagship division of the Holcim Group. The original company was merged on 10 July 2015 with Lafarge to form LafargeHolcim as the new company and renamed to Holcim Group in 2021. The Holcim brand remained active within the group when the merger was completed.
Cheung Kong Holdings
former multinational conglomerate headquartered in Hong Kong
Max Factor
line of cosmetics
Sigma-Aldrich
Sigma-Aldrich (part of MilliporeSigma) is a brand operating within an American chemical, life science, and biotechnology company owned by the multinational chemical conglomerate Merck Group. The life sciences business of Merck Group operates as MilliporeSigma in the United States.
White Wolf Publishing
American roleplaying game and book publisher
LastPass
LastPass is a password manager application. The standard version of LastPass comes with a web interface, but also includes a browser extension, an app and support for bookmarklets.
Daybreak Game Company
American video game developer and publisher
Funko
Funko Inc. is an American company that manufactures licensed and limited pop culture collectibles, known for its licensed vinyl figurines and bobbleheads. In addition, the company produces licensed plush, action figures, apparel, accessories and games. Founded in 1998 by Mike Becker and Claudia Becker, Funko was originally conceived as a small project to create various low-tech, nostalgia-themed toys. The company's first manufactured bobblehead was of the Big Boy restaurant mascot.
Swissport
Swissport International Ltd. is a Swiss aviation services company providing airport ground handling, lounge hospitality and cargo handling services. Its headquarters are located in Opfikon, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
Getrag
Getrag (), stylized as GETRAG, was a major supplier of transmission systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The company was founded on 1 May 1935, in Ludwigsburg, Germany, by Hermann Hagenmeyer; as the Getriebe und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG.
tri-Ace
is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1995. They are known for their role-playing games, most notably the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series.
Alliant Techsystems
1990–2015 aerospace company
Altice Portugal
Portuguese telecommunication company
Film Roman
American animation studio
Rdio
Rdio (pronounced "r-dee-oh") was an online music streaming service that offered ad-supported free streaming and ad-free subscription streaming services in 85 countries.
Path
social network
SolarWinds
SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries.
Universal Robots
Danish robotics manufacturer
Embarcadero Technologies
company
Albertsons
Albertsons Companies, Inc. is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Havok
Irish computer software company
San Diego Union-Tribune
daily newspaper in San Diego, California
Songkick
Songkick is a concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. The service allows users to search for upcoming concert events in their area, and also track individual artists to receive notifications of upcoming shows in their area. It also provides services for artist teams to manage and promote tour dates globally.
Spansion
Spansion Inc. was an American-based company that designed, developed, and manufactured flash memory, microcontrollers, mixed-signal and analog products, and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. The company had more than 3,700 employees in 2014 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded as the joint-venture FASL between AMD and Fujitsu, which eventually was spun out into the independent company Spansion afterwards.
Colt Technology Services
multinational telecommunications and data centre services company
Informatica
Informatica Inc. is an American software development company founded in 1993 by Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney. Based in Redwood City, California, its core products include enterprise cloud data management and data integration.
China Metallurgical Group Corporation
subsidiary company
Digiturk
Digiturk is a Turkish satellite television provider founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. They provide both national television channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of different genres. Digiturk is also the current owner of the broadcasting rights of Süper Lig. In addition to Turkey, Digiturk offers its television service throughout Europe, mainly for members of the Turkish diaspora. Reportedly, they have over 3.5 million subscribers worldwide. Digiturk's service is provided from Eutelsat 7A, positioned some 35 degrees west of the more traditionally
Nobel Biocare
company
Silicon Image
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Covidien
Covidien plc was an Irish-headquartered global health care products company and manufacturer of medical devices and supplies. Covidien became an independent publicly traded company after being spun off from Tyco International in 2007. It was purchased by Medtronic in a transaction that closed in 2015. The now-merged company is headquartered in Ireland, where Covidien was based.
China Shipping Group
shipping conglomerate