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Trend Micro
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| Type | Public (TYO: 4704)(NASDAQ: TMIC) |
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| Founded | California, USA (1988) |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Eva Chen; co-founder, CTO (1996-2004), and CEO (2004–) Steve Chang, founder and former CEO |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Products | PC-cillin, HouseCall |
| Revenue | ¥73.03 billion |
| Website | www.trendmicro.com |
Trend Micro (TYO: 4704 , NASDAQ: TMIC) is a Taiwanese company that develops software to protect against computer viruses. Steve Chang, a Taiwanese, the founder and former CEO of the company, started the company in California in 1988. Its headquarters are in Tokyo. In 2004 Chang passed leadership to Eva Chen, co-founder of Trend Micro. She was CTO from 1996 to 2004. One of her best known developments is Trend InterScan VirusWall.
Trend Micro is known for producing the PC-cillin range of anti-virus products. They also are the creator of the free, online, browser-based virus scanner, HouseCall. In order to research and inform about worldwide security threats, they have a global virus/worm response center, called TrendLabs. Its offices are located in Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, China, France, Germany, Ireland and USA.
Since 2004, MSN Hotmail has been using Trend Micro to scan messages and attachments in free and Hotmail Plus accounts instead of McAfee, which has made the company more public. McAfee was then solely implemented on the MSN Premium service.
In April 2005 Trend Micro suffered a high-profile false alarm, which caused widespread computer crashes and turmoil across Asia.[1]
In May 2005 Trend Micro acquired InterMute Inc., a leading developer of anti-spyware products, followed in June by Kelkea Inc., a leading authority on IP filtering and reputation services.
In February 2006 Trend Micro released Interscan Web Security Appliance (IWSA) which is their latest addition to the company's multi-layered approach to protecting enterprise organizations against spyware and other threats. The appliance acts as the first line of defense against threats like spyware, grayware, viruses, and phishing (More details on http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060227/sfm009.html?.v=42).
In February 2007 Eva Chen, has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over alleged violations. She agreed to pay a civil penalty and not to violate securities laws in the future. Also this month, they aquired HijackThis, an antispyware program from Merijn. They also maintain CWShredder, another one of Merijin's creations.
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Trend Micro is on the US Federal Buying Schedule 70 through resellers Softchoice, ASAP, and Synnex.