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Yahoo Inc.
American internet company (2017–present)
Climax Studios
British video game developer
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Shanghai Moonton Technology Co. Ltd. (), commonly known as Moonton, is a Chinese video game company dedicated to gaming development, publication, and esports. The company operates offices in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Latin America, Hong Kong, and mainland China, among other locations.
RSA Insurance Group
Insurance company
Husky
Canadian chain of petrol stations and energy company
Uterqüe
Uterqüe is a fashion brand of the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to accessories and garments such as scarves and sunglasses. It was founded in 2008 as a company with headquarters in Tordera, Barcelona in Spain. In September 2021, Inditex announced the closing of all physical stores, but remaining as a brand within Massimo Dutti retail chain.
Freeview
British digital terrestrial television platform
The Saudi National Bank
Saudi Arabian bank
Emojipedia
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia or emoji dictionary, Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes and usage trends. It has been owned by Zedge since 2021.
Tokopedia
PT Tokopedia is an Indonesian e-commerce company. Tokopedia is a subsidiary of GoTo, following a merger with Gojek on 17 May 2021. It is one of the most visited e-commerce platforms in Indonesia.
Maxim Integrated
American company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits
Z Intermediate Global Corporation
Japanese subsidiary of South Korean internet search giant Naver
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
American video game developer
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Housemarque Oy (or Housemarque Inc.) is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki. The company was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen in July 1995, through the merger of their previous video game companies, Bloodhouse and Terramarque, both of which were founded in 1993 as Finland's first commercial developers. Housemarque is the oldest active developer in Finland and has about 110 employees as of 2023. It was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in June 2021, becoming a part of PlayStation Studios.
BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik
company
Grubhub
Grubhub Inc. (stylized in all caps) is an American online and mobile prepared food ordering and delivery platform based in Chicago, Illinois. As of 2019, it had 19.9 million active users, with 115,000 associated restaurants in 3,200 cities in all 50 US states.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
American company
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a marketing automation and email marketing platform, operated by Rocket Science Group, a subsidiary of Intuit. Following its acquisition by Intuit in 2021, the platform has been branded as Intuit Mailchimp. The company was founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut and Mark Armstrong, with Dan Kurzius later joining.
Raw Fury
Swedish video game publisher
Wrike Inc.
Wrike, Inc. is an American project management application service provider based in San Jose, California. Wrike also has offices in India, Dallas, Tallinn, Nicosia, Dublin, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Prague.
Ingram Micro
company
Sequential Circuits
American synthesizer company
Gruner + Jahr
German publisher
Harmonix Music Systems
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., doing business as Harmonix, is an American video game developer company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was established in May 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. Harmonix is perhaps best known as being the developer of music video games series Dance Central and Rock Band, as well as being the original developer and creator of the Guitar Hero series before development moved to Neversoft and Vicarious Visions.
Atotech
Atotech is a German speciality chemicals and equipment company that operates in 40 countries. It provides chemistry and equipment for companies that manufacture printed circuit boards, IC-substrates and semiconductors; and also provides specialty chemicals and equipment for decorative and functional surface finishing in the automotive, construction, furniture and other industries.
Nixxes Software
Dutch video game development company
TaylorMade Golf Company
TaylorMade Golf Company is an American sports equipment manufacturing company based in Carlsbad, California, United States. The company focuses on the golf equipment market, producing golf clubs, balls, and clothing. TaylorMade Golf is currently a subsidiary of Centroid Investment Partners after it was purchased from KPS Capital Partners in May 2021.
Cloudera
Cloudera, Inc. is an American data lake software company.
Tribune Publishing
American publishing company
AWAL
AWAL (an initialism of Artists Without a Label) is a global recording business that serves as an alternative to the traditional record label, offering deal structures that provide artists with the resources and expertise of a global label while allowing them to retain ownership and control of their music.
Focusrite
Focusrite PLC is an English music and audio products group based in High Wycombe, England (with its history in Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd.). The Focusrite Group trades under eight brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Martin Audio, ADAM Audio, Novation, Ampify Music, Optimal Audio and Sequential. Focusrite designs and markets audio interfaces, microphone preamps, consoles, analogue equalizers (EQ) and channel strips, and digital audio processing hardware and software for professional and home studios.
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Unsplash is a website dedicated to proprietary stock photography. Since 2021, it has been owned by Getty Images. The website claims over 330,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 13 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 5 million photos (as of April 2023). Unsplash has been cited as one of the world's leading photography websites by Forbes, Design Hub, CNET, Medium and The Next Web.
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
company
Ninja Kiwi
gaming developer from New Zealand
GE Capital Aviation Services
US aviation financing and leasing company
Standard Life
investment management company
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German video game developer
Vyatta
Vyatta is a software-based virtual router, virtual firewall and VPN product for Internet Protocol networks (IPv4 and IPv6). A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others. A standardized management console, similar to Juniper JUNOS or Cisco IOS, in addition to a web-based GUI and traditional Linux system commands, provides configuration of the system and applications. In recent versions of Vyatta, web-based management interface is supplied only in th
DotEmu
Dotemu SAS (originally DotEmu SAS) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris, founded in 2007 by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisserand. It is best known for its ports, remasters and remakes.
MNRK Music Group
American independent record label company
International Data Corporation
International Data Corporation
Rodenstock GmbH
company
Keihin Corporation
Japanese automotive and motorcycle parts company
Varian Medical Systems
American healthcare company
Orbcomm
ORBCOMM Inc. is an American company that offers industrial IoT products designed to track, monitor, and control fixed and mobile assets in markets including transportation, heavy equipment, maritime, oil and gas, utilities and government. The company provides hardware devices, modems, web applications, and data services delivered over multiple satellites and cellular networks.
Freesat
Freesat is a British free-to-air satellite television service, first formed as a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc and now owned by Everyone TV (itself owned by all of the four UK public service broadcasters, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5). The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008. Freesat offers a satellite alternative to the Freeview service on digital terrestrial television, with a broadly similar selection of channels available without subscription for users purchasing a receiver.
SDI Media Group
Iyuno, Inc. is a major provider of subtitling, translation, and language dubbing services to the entertainment industry. The headquarters are located in Burbank, California with other offices and facilities located in 35 countries around the world.
O2
British telecommunications company
Meredith Corporation
American media conglomerate
W. R. Grace and Company
American chemical company
Wind Hellas
former Greek telecommunications company
Fatshark
Fatshark AB is a Swedish video game development studio based in Stockholm. It develops its own games and has also acted as a subcontractor for several AAA titles for PC and consoles.
Firehouse Subs
US-based restaurant chain
Sketchfab
Sketchfab is a 3D asset website used to publish, share, and discover 3D, VR and AR content. It provides a viewer based on the WebGL and WebXR technologies that allows users to display 3D models on the web, to be viewed on any mobile browser, desktop browser or Virtual Reality headset.
Ekati Diamond Mine
diamond mine
Coca-Cola Amatil
Beverage company
Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
maker of car brakes, a Honda keiretsu company
ReverbNation
ReverbNation.com is a website, launched in 2006, that focuses on the independent music industry. It aims to provide a central site for musicians, producers, and venues to collaborate and communicate. ReverbNation was bought for an undisclosed sum by music creation platform, BandLab Technologies, in November 2021.
Azamara
Azamara is a cruise line based in Miami, Florida, that operates four cruise ships on worldwide itineraries.
Chipita
Chipita S.A. is a Greek food company headquartered in Athens, Greece. As of 2016, it is stationed within 56 countries.