Author: Benjamin

Brother’s origins are in sewing machines, not printers. The business began in Nagoya in 1908 as a sewing-machine repair operation run by the Yasui family.

BIXOLON’s origin predates the BIXOLON company name. Its official history starts in 1993 inside Samsung’s mini-printer business, producing printer mechanisms for electronic cash registers.

Adobe began in 1982 with a problem that sat between computers and printers. John Warnock and Charles Geschke left Xerox and founded the company around technology that could describe text and graphics in a way…

Acconet’s official site supports a clear description of the business but does not publish the kind of founding chronology available for older networking manufacturers.

Amplify Creations presents itself as a consumer-electronics and accessories brand focused on products used around phones, computers and personal audio.

Aqara’s history needs two dates. Shenzhen Lumi United Technology was founded in 2009, while the Aqara consumer brand emerged later.

Belkin’s history starts in a Southern California garage in 1983 with a very specific compatibility problem. The company built cables for early personal computers and later highlighted a cable that connected Apple’s…

Cisco was founded in 1984 by Stanford computer technologists Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner around a problem universities were encountering as computer networks multiplied: different local networks and protocols needed…

Bitdefender as a brand dates to 2001, when a Romanian team of roughly 30 security specialists launched its first portfolio under the Bitdefender name.

Canon’s camera story begins before Canon Inc. formally existed.