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4k Video Downloader+ is a program created by InterPromo GMBH used to download videos from YouTube and other video sources.

5CA is a customer support outsourcing and technology company used by gaming and tech brands.

7-Eleven is an American retailer store that is an subsidiary of Seven eleven Japan that is owned by Seven & I Holdings. Founded in 1927 by Joe C. Thompson, originally known as Southland Ice Company…

Around Mid December in 2020, several hacker group going by the names FIN11, UNC2546, and CLOP, infiltrated Accellion systems using SQL injection, affecting organizations delving to various aspects of…

Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It was founded in 1976 and originally called…

Activation is a license or service validation procedure. It may involve sending information about a device, a license or a licensee to a service provider, and receiving some information that is…

Activision Blizzard, Inc., often referred to as ABK (Activision-Blizzard-King), or Acti-Blizz, is an American video-game holding company. On 13 October 2023, Microsoft acquired ABK for $68.7 billion.

Age Verification (AV), also referred to as Age Affirmation (AA) and Age gating, is the process in where a business requires some form of identification to verify your age. This is usually done for…

AirAsia is a budget airline based in Malaysia. In 2007, The New York Times described AirAsia as a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia. As of November 2025, they serve Asia, the Middle East, and…

AirPods are wireless earbuds designed by Apple. They first debuted on 7 September 2016, alongside the iPhone 7, and were released on 13 December 2016.

Airsoft GI (GI Toys) was launched in 2003 and has quickly become America's #1 retailer of airsoft guns and accessories. Airsoft GI is a company run by airsoft players for airsoft players. Almost all…

Airtel Axis Credit card has been devalued effective 12 April 2026.

Airthings ASA sells air monitors and purifiers, which customers can pair with a mobile app in order to access the air measurements and various additional services. On May 21, 2024, they sent an…

Alliance Laundry Systems and Speed Queen, a US-based company and subsidiary with systems rolling out across both north and south America has created an exploitative system with negative implications…

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Ally Financial Inc. is a US-based company offering banking, securities, and other financial services through its subsidiaries such as Ally Bank, Ally Invest Advisers Inc.

Ally Invest Securities, LLC (also known as Ally Invest) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ally Financial which provides securities brokerage and financial services. Ally Invest provides services to…

Amazon.com, Inc. is a global leader in e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Originally launched as an online bookstore, Amazon quickly expanded into a…

Sellers on Amazon can list products, gather reviews for them, and then modify the listings to sell entirely different items while retaining the reviews from the previously sold products…

Amazon Fire TV is a line of streaming devices and smart TVs powered by Amazon's Fire OS (based on Android). The primary Fire TV devices is the Fire Stick line, which consists of portable HDMI…

Amazon Kindle is a product line of e-readers made by Amazon.

On 10 April 2026, Amazon announced it would end support for individual game purchases and third-party storefront integrations on its Luna cloud gaming platform, revoking cloud-streaming access for…

In August of 2025, Amazon revoked access to the Amazon App Store on all non-Amazon Android devices. Customers will now be required to purchase Amazon hardware, such as Fire TV or Fire Tablet, if they…

Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon, has two pending class action lawsuits against it for enrolling Amazon customers into the Audible membership without their consent and charging them the $14.95 monthly…

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American technology company that designs and sells computer components such as central processing unit (CPUs), graphics processing unit (GPUs) and related…

Ancestry.com, owned by The Blackstone Group, is a genealogy company based in the US, known for its DNA testing and family trees.

Android is an operating system which started in 2003 and was acquired by Google in 2005, which made its first official release (Android 1.0) in 2008. It is based on a modified version of the Linux…

Android System SafetyCore is an app developed and released by Google for the Android platform. According to Google the software provides locally-run nudity censoring for any Android devices running…

On July 3, 2025, Electronic Arts (EA) and BioWare announced the "sunsetting", or server shutdown, of their video game Anthem, with January 12, 2026, set as the shutdown date. Premium in-game currency…

Anthropic PBC is a private for-profit American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded in 2021. Anthropic is mainly known for their family of large language models (LLMs) known as Claude.

Anti-Cheat Expert commonly abbreviated as "ACE" is an modular anti-cheat system developed by Tencent, that initially released in 2005 as a anti-bot solution for Free Fantasy Online. ACE provides…

Anti-privacy legislation simply put is legislation that may be created with malicious intent or not that invoke ones right to privacy. In the last decade, governments across the world have introduced…

The Apple Authorized Service Provider Program is a program created by Apple that attempts to provide third party authorized repair technicians with sufficient resources to repair Apple products.

iOS, the operating system of the Apple iPhone, has introduced on its Beta version 26.4 an integrated Age Verification in the operating system. This feature will be launched on the United Kingdom…

Apple Media Services (AMS) is the umbrella term Apple uses to refer to many of its online services, including the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more.

Apple Self Service Repair is a service offered by Apple that provides repair manuals, genuine Apple parts and tools for consumers to repair Apple devices. The service first became available in the…

Founded in 1964 by Forest Raffel and Leroy Raffel (or known as the Raffel Brothers), Arby's IP Holder, LLC is a American fast food chain specializing in sandwiches and milkshakes. It is a subsidiary…

Arduino, now a subsidiary of Qualcomm, is an Italian open-source hardware and software, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller…

AI training is a process by which data is fed into an AI model, in order to adjust its weights. This makes the output of the model closely match that of its input.

Assioma is a product line of power meter pedals designed for cyclists by Favero, a company based in Italy. It was renamed from bePRO in 2017.

The VG259QM 280Hz IPS 24.5-inch monitor was released in late 2020 with a Qisda Panel to excellent reviews. Users eventually noticed that their VG259QM monitors appeared as an inferior AUO panel. This…

AT&T, Inc. is a major telecommunications holding company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

ATSC 3.0, also known as NextGenTV (in the U.S.A.) or TV 3.0 DTV+ (in Brazil), is a television protocol for terrestrial (over-the-air) broadcasting. It promises to deliver over 4K resolution and 120…

Audi is a Germany-based automotive manufacturer owned by Volkswagen. Audi was founded on July 16, 1909 by August Horch in Zwickau, Germany. The Volkswagen Group acquired Audi in the 1960s from…

Audible, an audiobook marketplace and subsidiary of Amazon, is changing its royalty structure to subsidize its streaming service with premium credit purchases. In August 2025, the new structure took…

Authy is a free mobile app that generates random six-digit tokens to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for online services. Authy was acquired by Twilio in 2015.

Avid Technology Inc. is a US-based multimedia and technology company located in Massachusetts formed in August of 1987 that specializes in providing solutions for the professional audio, video, and…

Axis is a video surveillance company with approximately 4,000 employees across more than 50 countries that was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Axis Bank is a Indian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. General banking services like savings account, current account, credit card, mutual funds, loans…

After purchasing a Bandai Namco game, installing it and trying to use it for the first time, you are greeted by an EULA that you have to accept.

Bandcamp is an American online music platform founded in 2008 that lets musicians upload, sell, and share their music directly with fans, and allows listeners to discover and support independent…

Bandicam is a closed-source screen recording software for Microsoft Windows developed by Bandisoft and later by Bandicam Company. It consists of three main modes of capture, those being Screen…

Bandicam is a PC screen capture and recording software capable of taking screenshots and recording screen changes. It is shareware, meaning that it can be used for free with limited functionality and…

On November 6, 2019, Best Buy discontinued support for its Insignia Connect app. This resulted in major functionality losses for affected Insignia products that used the service.

Microsoft Bing (also known simply as Bing) is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft, and developed by Microsoft AI.

Bloomberg is a software company with a news website that has recently changed its terms of service. The terms of service pops up in front of everything forcing you to agree to it without being able…

GamersNexus, a pro consumer tech publication had their YouTube video taken down by Bloomberg as they claimed a DMCA violation on a fair use snippet from their coverage of Donald Trump's speech.

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (usually abbreviated BMW, sometimes anglicized as Bavarian Motor Works) is a German car company.

The bootloader is a special program on a device that loads the operating system when the device is turned on. Bootloaders are typically set by the manufacturer and shipped to retailers and consumers…

Robert Bosch GmbH, commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch.

Bose Corporation is an American manufacturing company that mostly sells audio equipment. It was founded in 1964.

BowFlex, Inc. is a fitness-equipment manufacturer headquartered in Vancouver, Washington.

Box Tops for Education is a school fundraising program founded by General Mills in 1996. In 2019, the program transitioned from cutting the logos from products to digitally scanning receipts, with…

Brainly (originally Zadane.pl) is a Polish company and platform founded in 2009 by Michał Borkowski dedicated towards students assisting each other for homework online. In recent years, the platform…

Brax Technologies is a New York–based company founded in 2024 that designs privacy-focused smartphones and tablets. Their products emphasize user control, open-source compatibility, and minimizing…

Breville (marketed as Sage in some regions) is one of the most popular home espresso machine brands, yet it consistently fails to support user repairability. They use many proprietary parts in their…

Brilliant (also known as Brilliant.org) is a website and app operated by Brilliant Worldwide, Inc. that provides online courses. Brilliant is a for-profit corporation supported by venture capitalists.

Bumpgate (also known as Nvidiagate) was a scandal where Nvidia and ATI Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) made from 2005-2010 were prone to high failure rates because of a design flaw that caused…

Bunnings} is a hardware and garden supply center chain based in Australia. Founded in 1886 by Aurther and Robert Bunning, they are now the largest hardware store in Australia, having been bought by…

Burger King Corporation was founded in 1953 and is a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International due to a $12.5 Billion merger with Tim Hortons. The company specializes in products such as their…

ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing, China. The company is known for many apps, including but not limited to, TikTok, Capcut, Gauth, Lemon8, and Hypic.

From 2001 to 2015 or 2017, Canadian retailers, including Walmart Canada, Metro, Giant Tiger and Sobeys, colluded to fix prices of bread.

Internet access is a monthly subscription to access a physical infrastructure. Modern internet connections use cable such a COAX or fiber optics to deliver TV and internet to homes across Canada…

Canonical is a software company best known for creating Ubuntu, an operating system based on Linux. It is largely funded by South African billionaire Mark Shuttleworth.