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Toshiba
is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors, hard disk drives, printers, batteries, lighting, as well as IT solutions such as quantum cryptography. It was formerly also one of the biggest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances, and medical equipment.
Monsanto
The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered crops. In 2018, the company ranked 199th on the Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue.
Gainax
was a Japanese animation studio based in Musashino, Tokyo. It is famous for its original anime series such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, End Of Evangelion, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Gunbuster, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, FLCL, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Gurren Lagann, and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, which have garnered critical acclaim and commercial success. Evangelion has reportedly grossed over ¥150 billion, or approximately 1.2 billion. In a discussion at the 2006 Tekkoshocon, Matt Greenfield claimed that Evangelion had grossed over 2 billion; Taked
Nortel
Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1895 as the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company, or simply Northern Electric. Until an antitrust settlement in 1949, Northern Electric was owned mostly by Bell Canada and the Western Electric Company of the Bell System, producing large volumes of telecommunications equipment based on licensed Western Electric designs.
Ricoh
is a Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company. It was founded by the now-defunct commercial division of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) known as the Riken Concern, on 6 February 1936 as . Ricoh's headquarters is located in Ōta, Tokyo.
Barings Bank
English merchant bank
Enron scandal
2001 accounting scandal of American energy company Enron
Arthur Andersen
former holding company
Roberto Calvi
Italian banker (1920–1982)
Hanwha Ocean
shipbuilder of South Korea
MCI Inc.
since January 6, 2006 subsidiary of Verizon Communications
Luckin Coffee
Chinese coffee shop company
Banesto
former bank of Spain
OCZ
OCZ was a brand of Toshiba that was used for some of its solid-state drives (SSDs) before they were rebranded with Toshiba. OCZ Storage Solutions was a manufacturer of SSDs based in San Jose, California, USA and was the new company formed after the sale of OCZ Technology Groups SSD assets to Toshiba Corporation. Since entering the memory market as OCZ Technology in 2002, the company has targeted its products primarily at the computer hardware enthusiast market, producing performance DDR SDRAM, video cards, USB drives, power supply units, and various cooling products.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Defunct bank founded to commit fraud and other crimes (1972–1991)
LDH Corporation
was a Japanese company that functioned as an Internet service provider (ISP) and operator of a web portal and blog platform before being brought down by a scandal in 2006. The company was founded and led in its first 10 years by Takafumi Horie, known as "Horiemon" in Japan. Livedoor grew into one of Japan's premier Internet businesses, putting over 1,000 employees on its payroll at its peak. Its reliance on acquisitions and stock swap mergers to achieve growth also made it one of the country's most controversial enterprises. Its growth came to a resounding halt when scandal erupted in early 20
Carillion
Carillion plc was a British multinational construction and facilities management services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation in January 2018.
Bangladesh Bank heist
heist via the SWIFT network from a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Autonomy Corporation
British software company
accounting scandal
fraud involving complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating the value of corporate assets, or underreporting the existence of liabilities
Lernout & Hauspie
Defunct Belgian speech recognition company
Waste Management, Inc
American company
Al-Yamamah arms deal
series of record arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels (95,000 cubic metres) of crude oil per day to the British government.
Cynthia Cooper
American accountant
Wirecard scandal
accounting scandal involving Wirecard
WorldCom scandal
Telecommunications company bankruptcy and financial scandal
Symbol Technologies
American mobile hardware manufacturer
Moldovan bank fraud scandal
big scandal in Moldavia in 2014
Satyam scandal
corporate fraud
Enten controversy
company
Moser Baer
company