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ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini and All-in-One PCs and wireless monitors to great marks such as Asus, Acer and much more. The privately held company has approximately $1 billion in worldwide sales annually. ViewSonic's headquarters are located in Brea, California, United States. ==History== 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.〔http://goldsea.com/RTR/Chujames/chujames.html〕 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. In 2000, ViewSonic acquired the Nokia Display Products' branded business.〔(ViewSonic Corporation Acquires Nokia Display Products' Branded Business ) (January 17, 2000) - Accessed: July 3, 2007〕 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."). On July 2, 2007, the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $143.8M in an IPO on NASDAQ.〔(ViewSonic Registers for IPO ), Forbes. Access date: 3-July-2007.〕 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."〔(), Securities and Exchange Commission. Access date: 8-March-2008-09.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ViewSonic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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