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Volvo Vehicle Information and Diagnostics for Aftersales (VIDA) is a software package and related subscription service offered by Volvo for use with its cars manufactured as of 2001 or later. The…

Vont (also known as Vont Innovations) is an American company that produces smart electronics for consumers, ranging from headlamps to digital kitchen scales to plugs and security cameras. As of 5…

VPN Secure is a virtual private network service that, from around 2018 to 2023, offered lifetime VPN service for a fixed, non-recurring price through online software storefront StackSocial. In 2023…

VRChat is a digital application first released in 2014 by VRChat, Inc. While it is designed primarily for virtual reality, it is also available for desktop and mobile devices.

The company VRS (Virtual Racing School), known for selling sim racing equipment, has launched a product, the uDFP20 Wheel Base, which is readily capable of certain performance, but this performance…

Vulcan Strength is a North Carolina-based company that manufactures and supplies fitness equipment. They were founded in 2008, registering as a Small Disadvantaged Business with the U.S. Small…

Vultr, founded in 2014, is an American cloud service company. Among those cloud services are storage, servers, and databases.

Wacom Co., Ltd. is a Japanese graphics tablet & pen display manufacturer founded in 1983, publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 6727).

Wacom legacy tablet driver abandonment is Wacom's practice of discontinuing driver software for older graphics tablet models, rendering functional hardware unusable on current operating systems. The…

Waffle House, Inc. is an American restaurant chain.

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Walmart Inc. is an American company known for its chain of retail stores and ubiquitous presence across many states and countries.

In June 2025, Walmart began rolling out an Android 14 update for its first generation and 2021 Onn streaming devices that utilized Android 10 and 12 respectively. This forced update on older devices…

The CD keys for the 2002 video game Warcraft III used to be redeemable on Battle.net for a copy of Warcraft III: Reforged (2020). This grandfathered deal was discontinued on 21 November 2025.

Warp is a modern, AI‑powered terminal that reimagines the traditional command line for developers. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, Warp combines speed, intelligent command suggestions, and…

Washington House Bill 2321 is proposed legislation in the U.S. state of Washington that requires all 3D printers sold in the state to include firearm-blocking technology. Prefiled on January 8, 2026…

A Waste Ink Counter (WIC) is a firmware-based lockout that causes printers to cease to function when a counter has been incremented above a certain value.

Though maybe you are looking for Wemo? Waymo LLC, previously Stanford Self-Driving Car Team at time of founding, is an American car company focused on self-driving cars.

A web cookie, is a small chunk(s) of data served(shared) to the client(browser) that can be used for a variety of purposes. One of the most common being a website login identifier that serves a…

Wegmans is an American supermarket chain headquartered in Rochester, NY, with stores across the east coast. With over 110 locations and over 54,000 employees, they make $12.5 billion in annual sales.

Wegmans is an American supermarket chain headquartered in Rochester, NY, with stores across the east coast. With over 110 locations and over 54,000 employees, they make $12.5 billion in annual sales.

Wemo is a subsidiary of Belkin founded in 2011. They are known for smart home devices such as plugs and light switches that use the Apple HomeKit and Thread protocols.

Belkin Wemo smart home devices require cloud connectivity to work. On 10 July 2025, Belkin announced the shutdown of cloud services supporting most Wemo devices, effective 31 January 2026.

Wendy's International, LLC founded by Dave Thomas in 1969, is an American fast food restaurant ranking the 9th most valuable brand in 2026. Wendy's has faced controversy regarding security and…

Western Digital is a data storage company from the US that specializes in high-quality hard drives and backup solutions.

WeTransfer is a cloud-based file transfer service that allows users to upload files through their website and then either gives them a link directly or to send an e-mail to the recipient with a…

What3Words (W3W) is a proprietary geolocation system developed by What3Words Limited, assigning three-word combinations to 3×3 meter squares across the globe. It is marketed as a simple alternative…

WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta.

Whistle pet trackers will cease functioning on August 31 2025, following Tractive's acquisition of the company from Mars Petcare.

Whoop, Inc. (stylized as WHOOP) is an American wearable technology company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Since the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has sold USB drives with an installer preloaded. They are deeply write-protected, and have no official way to be formatted and reused for anything other…

Microsoft discontinued support for Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) starting with the 24H2 release of Windows 11. All users who have installed this version or later can no longer use their devices.

Wink is a company that produces various smart home products that can be remotely operated via smart phone.

The Winston-Salem Journal is an American daily newspaper primarily serving the eponymous area. It is owned by Lee Enterprises.

WKDA GmbH operates the website wirkaufendeinauto.de, a German car-selling platform that advertises the ability to receive a final/guaranteed price for used vehicles online and implies an effortless…

Wondershare is a company that creates software products for media creation, document manipulation, and data recovery.

World of Warcraft (colloquially referred to as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online game maintained by Activision Blizzard. Despite the product's critical acclaim since the 2000s, the treatment of…

Wyze Labs, Inc. (formerly Wyzecam), also known as Wyze, is an American technology company that was incorporated on 19 July 2017.

X, formerly known as Twitter, is a global social-media platform that facilitates real-time communication and the sharing of short messages, known as "tweets". Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah…

Xbox is a series of gaming consoles created by Microsoft since 15 November 2001.

Xbox Network, formerly Xbox Live, is a subscription service launched on 15 November 2002, for the original Xbox. In 2021, Microsoft rebranded Xbox Live to Xbox Network.

Xcode is an IDE provided by Apple, primarily for creating iOS and MacOS apps. In order to run apps on real devices, Xcode is required for signing iOS/macOS apps.

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese multi-national corporation and technology company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and electric vehicles.

Most Xiaomi phones come with a bootloader that might be able to unlock, but unlike the Android's default unlocking procedure, Xiaomi had the following requirements in 2022: The user must create and…

Xiaomi Yi Home cameras are consumer smart home surveillance devices marketed for residential indoor and outdoor monitoring. They rely heavily on cloud services, mobile applications, and remote…

Xlear is a Utah-based nasal spray company that claimed its nasal spray as a COVID-19 preventative and treatment. In 2021, the FTC sued Xlear for this false claim.

Yahoo! is a company that makes internet-based products.

Yahoo! mandatory use of AI on all consumer services and content refers to Yahoo's 2025 Terms of Service update that requires users to consent to sharing their account data, including private email…