Viewsonic Products
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Viewsonic The company was initially founded as Keypoint Technology Corporation in 1987. In 1990 it launched the ViewSonic line of color computer monitors, and shortly afterwards the company renamed itself after its brand. The founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of ViewSonic is James Chu.[1] The ViewSonic logo features Gouldian Finches, colorful birds native to Australia. In the mid-1990s, ViewSonic rose to become one of the top-rated makers of computer CRT monitors, alongside Sony, NEC, MAG Innovision, and Panasonic. ViewSonic soon displaced the rest of these companies to emerge as the largest display manufacturer from America/Japan at the turn of the millennium. More recently, ViewSonic has been overtaken by Korean giants Samsung and LG, as the latter were at the forefront of then-fledging LCD technology. In 2000, ViewSonic acquired the Nokia Display Products' branded business.[2] In 2002, a former employee of ViewSonic maliciously shut down a key company server. This prevented ViewSonic's Taiwan office from accessing the business's data, causing an estimated US$53,000 in damages.[3] In 2005, ViewSonic and Tatung won a British patent lawsuit filed against them by LG Philips in a dispute over which company created technology for rear mounting of LCDs in a mobile PC (U.K. Patent GB2346464B, titled, “portable computer.").[4] On July 2, 2007, the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $143.8M in an IPO on NASDAQ.[5] On March 5, 2008, the company filed a withdraw request with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying "terms currently obtainable in the public marketplace are not sufficiently attractive to the Registrant to warrant proceeding with the initial public offering."[6] |
