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Myspace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is an American social networking service. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga, RockYou, and Photobucket, among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world.
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Tumblr ( ) is a microblogging and social media platform founded by David Karp in 2007 and is owned by American company Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. It was also noted for being socially progressive in the 2010s.
Red Hat
American multinational software company

Charlton Athletic F.C.
association football club in London, England
Viacom
American mass media company (2005–2019)

Whataburger
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21st Century Fox
American multinational mass media corporation (2013–2019)

Columbus Crew
soccer club in Columbus, Ohio, USA
nginx
Nginx (pronounced "engine x" , stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, often as a load balancer.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming and culture website, bimonthly magazine, and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a "rock inkie", the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a free publication as well as a webzine, and the brand has also been used for their NME Awards show, the NME Tours and the former NME Radio station.
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Smosh
Smosh () is an American YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective, independent production company, and former social networking site founded by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. In 2002, Padilla created a website named "smosh.com" for making Flash animations, and he was later joined by Hecox. They began posting videos on Smosh's YouTube channel in 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular channels on the site. , the main Smosh channel has over 11 billion views and over 26 million subscribers.
Virgin Galactic
American spaceflight company
Sports Illustrated
American sports magazine

Sotheby's
'''Sotheby's''' ( ) is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, and maintains a significant presence in the UK.
Insomniac Games
American video game developer
Barnes & Noble
American book retailer
CBS Corporation
American mass media company (2005–2019)

Cray
Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. , Cray supercomputer systems held the top three spots in the TOP500, which ranks the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Oslo Stock Exchange
stock exchange located in Oslo, Norway
Alludo
Corel Corporation ( ; as an abbreviation for "Cowpland Research Laboratory") is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. The company is known for producing software titles such as CorelDRAW, and for acquiring AfterShot Pro, PaintShop Pro, Painter, Video Studio and WordPerfect.
Costa Coffee
British multinational coffeehouse company
New York
American magazine on life, culture, politics, and style, focusing on New York City
Hooters
Hooters is the registered trademark used by an international restaurant chain Hooters, Inc., based in Clearwater, Florida and its associated franchise group Hoot Owl Restaurants LLC. The Hooters name is a double entendre referring to both an American slang term for women's breasts and the logo (a bird known for its "hooting" calls: the owl).
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.
Bebo
Bebo ( ) was an American social networking website that originally operated from 2005 until its bankruptcy in 2013. The site relaunched several times after its bankruptcy with a number of short-lived offerings, including instant messaging and video streaming, until its acquisition by Amazon in July 2019 when it was shut down. It was announced in January 2021 that it would be returning as a new social-media site the month after. By May 2022, it had once again been shut down, without having left beta-testing.
IndyCar
IndyCar, LLC (stylized as INDYCAR), is an auto racing sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The organization sanctions two racing series: the premier IndyCar Series with the Indianapolis 500 as its centerpiece, and the developmental series Indy NXT. IndyCar is recognized as a member organization of the FIA through the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States.
Pandora
American music streaming and recommendation website

SABIC
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (), known as SABIC (), is a Saudi chemical manufacturing company. 70% of SABIC's shares are owned by Saudi Aramco. It is active in petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial polymers and fertilizers. It is the second largest public company in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia as listed in Tadawul.
The Onion
American satire news organization
Source Music
South Korean entertainment company
HCL Domino
rapid application development platform
Amer Sports
company based in Finland
Double Fine
American video game developer
Lakeshore Entertainment
film production company
Stratolaunch Systems
company
Tableau Software, Inc.
Cloud-based data visualization software developed by Salesforce.

Escada SE
Escada SE is a luxury women's designer clothing company headquartered in Aschheim, Germany. The firm is owned by Regent, L.P., an international private equity firm led by investor Michael Reinstein.
Tarsier Studios
Swedish video game developer
Warhorse Studios
Czech video game developer
Lionsgate Canada
Canadian entertainment company and a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios

HMV Retail Ltd.
HMV is an international music and entertainment retailer, founded in London, England in 1921. The brand is owned by Hilco Capital and operated by Sunrise Records, except in Japan, where it is owned and operated by Lawson.
Funcom
Funcom Oslo AS (formerly Funcom N.V. and Funcom Productions AS) is a Norwegian video game developer and publisher that specializes in online games. It is best known for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) titles Conan Exiles, Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, The Secret World – and The Longest Journey series of adventure games. The company has offices in Oslo, Norway; North Carolina, US; Lisbon, Portugal; Bucharest, Romania; and Stockholm, Sweden. It also had offices in Beijing, Dublin, and Montreal previously. It is now owned by the Chinese media conglomerate Tencent.
Magneti Marelli
Italian manufacturer of components for the automotive industry
Clarion
company
Piranha Bytes
German video game development company
Seven Arcs
Japanese animation studio
L3 Technologies
former company in New York, United States
Dun & Bradstreet
commercial data and analytics service provider
Psyonix
Psyonix LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego. It was founded in 2000 by Dave Hagewood with the team of his Internet-focused company WebSite Machines. After canceling its first two projects, Psyonix created VehicleMOD, a mod that adds vehicles to Unreal Tournament 2003. The game's developer, Epic Games, subsequently hired the studio to recreate this gameplay for a game mode in Unreal Tournament 2004. Psyonix subsisted off contract work and released its first original game, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, in 2008. The game was not as successful as anticipat

Hamleys
Hamleys of London Limited, trading as Hamleys, is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail. Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760. It moved to its current site on Regent Street in London's West End in 1881. This flagship store is set over seven floors, with more than 50,000 lines of toys on sale. It receives around five million visitors each year, and is especially busy at Christmas.
Gemalto
Gemalto was an international digital security company providing software applications, secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens, e-wallets and managed services. It was formed in June 2006 by the merger of two companies, Axalto and Gemplus International. Gemalto N.V.'s revenue in 2018 was €2.969 billion.
Alps Alpine
company
Monotype
American typesetting and typeface design company
Alexander Dennis
bus manufacturer based in the United Kingdom
Tribune Media
American media conglomerate (1861–2019)
Slightly Mad Studios
British video game company
Volcom
Volcom was an American lifestyle brand that designed, marketed, and distributed boardsports-oriented products. Volcom is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. The brand was known for its trademark stone logo, its slogan True to This, and the Let the Kids Ride Free campaign. Todd Hymel is the CEO of Volcom.
Flying Wild Hog
Polish video game developer

Turnitin
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Turnitin (stylized as turnitin) is an Internet-based similarity detection service run by the American company Turnitin, LLC, a subsidiary of Advance Publications. The software as a service (SaaS) website sells automated checks of submitted documents against its database of prior submitted documents and the content of other websites to identify plagiarism. As of 2025, the company licenses access to its services to over 16,000 universities and high schools worldwide, with more than 71 million students enrolled, but as early as 2006, Princeton, Harvard,
Harris Corporation
former American technology company