VTech

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## VTech

### Subsidiaries

Advanced American Telephones (aka VTech Innovation)LeapFrog Enterprises
Snom Technology

## History of VTech

Originally named **Video Technology Limited**, the company would later rename to **VTech Holdings Ltd**.

**VTech** would acquire LeapFrog Enterprises on April 4, 2016.

## People of Interest

Gary Masching was a CEO around February 9, 1999

## Controversies

### Poor Working Conditions

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights claimed in a report that the working conditions of **VTech's** factories located in China had cruel working conditions best described as a sweatshop. VTech denied these allegations.

### Learning Lodge Data Breach

On November 14, 2015, the Learning Lodge was compromised in a data breach which gained unauthorized access to user's private info and likeness. The leaked contents included things such as a person's username, password, email address, and IP address. This private info from both the parent, and the child(s) were found in the leaks. Around 5 million accounts were compromised in this attack. The hacker anonymously went out to tell the company about these security risks caused by the site using Adobe Flash and being well outdated. Despite **VTech** initially not listening to his pleas, after the unknown hacker told other news outlets about the risk, and what was found from the hacks, **VTech** stepped in to inform all registered users about this breach.

**VTech** was seen in poor light during the incident due to the company storing private info of child and adult users' voice recordings, and photos without prior knowledge. The Learning Lodge services went back online on January 23, 2016. They have since shut down the Learning Lodge services to be replaced with a more secure method of service to prevent this from happening again. Due to these issues, the FTC fined the company $650,000 (around $0.09 per affected user).

## License Acquisitions & Partnerships

The following list is organized by earliest known year acquired. Due to the obscurity of many items, info not yet confirmed fully are shown in *italics*.

## Trivia

### Company

* In the 80s, and early to mid 90s there logo would sometimes appear inverted, like on Alphabert.
* VTech is the largest manufacturer of computers that use the Lips interpreter.
* On February 8, 1999, Dr. Loretta Long (aka Susan) from Sesame Street worked with VTech to promote the benefits of there educational toys.
* On September 5, 2008, VTech attended the 2008 Annual General Meeting located in Hong Kong, China.
* On October 7, 2008, **VTech** would delist the company from the London Stock Exchange.
* In 2012 around 33,000 workers were employed by VTech.

### Site

* In the late 90s, early 2000s VTech had the option to download the company's logo in a .TIFF file, or a .JPG file, and was found on the download center on the bottom.
* During the early 2000s they had an option to view a product in 3D even with basic interactions to show off features of the device.
	+ These were known as "3D Shows"
* At one point in ~2005 they had an online E-Card for Christmas

## Gallery

VTech's logo from the mid-90sAnother version of the mid-90s logo, with the white parts more thicker.Alternative logo from 1994The Blue Cat partnership logo used on the site in May of 2004Current logo used since the 2000s, but without the bubble design
## External Links

1. The official site dated May 8th, 1999
	1. A page talking about there home line phones, dated 2000
	2. An example of the 3D Show from 2002 of the SmarTV
2. The official VTech site dated July 1st 2004, and is the earliest mention of the V.Smile
	1. Vtech's toy page dated June 9th 2004, has a section dedicated to the Chinese market
	2. The page for the Growth Lesson Series from Vtech from China, dated June 19th, 2004
3. VTech's events page from September of 2008
4. VTech's Homepage (Germany, 2012)
5. An article from Vtech talking about a data breach from November 30th, 2015
6. The Logopedia article for Vtech, which is the source of the Vtech logos used here

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Blog post talking about Susan from Sesame Street representing VTech in 1999
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 PR Newswire article of VTech denying the poor work conditions.
3. ↑ Official statement on the data breach
4. ↑ Time article talking about the incident
5. ↑ Learning Lodge Official FAQ
6. ↑ Article talking about the FTC's actions against VTech.
7. ↑ Info on various VTech computers that use the LOGO interpreter
8. ↑ PDF document mentioning this delisting.
9. ↑ The VTech download center from June 18th, 2004 that has the logo downloadable
10. ↑ Christmas E-Card from ~2005