Communications

Plum Laboratories Corporate Office

Lee Williams founded Plum Laboratories in 2016 after a local police department requested a portable communications device that would allow officers to communicate with one another, as well as have internet access, even if the department communications systems went down.

The Plum Case was created to fulfill that need. Since 2016, Plum Laboratories has developed 11 patented cases for first responders, NASA, hospitals, the National Guard, and emergency management agencies.

Some of Plum Laboratory’s clients include some of the most prestigious organizations in the US, both public and private: NASA, Hulu, ESPN, US Army, Duke Energy, and Sony.

Plum Laboratories maintains a corporate office in Springfield, Tennessee.

Consumer Cellular Corporate Office

Consumer Cellular was founded in 1995 in Tigard, Oregon, by current CEO John Marick and Greg Pryor. The company operates a non-subscription/non-contract cellular phone service.

The company is best known for having no contracts. The main focus is on retirees and others with a fixed income. In 2008, the company began working with the AARP to enlarge their subscriber base. As of 2016, the company has more than 2 million regular subscribers. In 2012, the company began using SIM cards in order to add iPhones to their service. In 2015, the company exceeded $1 billion in revenue and announced in mid-2018, that they would reach 3 million customers by the end of the year. This new increase in business has caused the company to hire an additional 500 employees at their call center in Arizona.

Consumer Cellular has received numerous awards over the years, including the highest score in J.D. Power 2016 Wireless Customer Care Full Service Study, as well as the highest score in 2016 in PC Magazine’s 29th annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey. Company headquarters are located in Portland, Oregon.

XO Communications Corporate Office

XO Communications was founded in 2000 in Herndon, Virginia. Originally called NetLink Communications, the company operates an IP and ethernet network.

The company offers networking services, mainly to large and small businesses, such as bandwidth on demand and internet services. In addition, the company offers private line services for VOIP, SIP, and cloud transfers. The company also offers security services, such as hosted and security for websites, as well as VPN services for national and international communication carriers .

XO Communications operates as a subsidiary of Verizon Communications as of February of 2016, and has headquarters in Herndon, Virginia. A combined Verizon-XO offering is expected to be offered in or around June of 2017 by a business unit for both small businesses and government markets.

CNN Corporate Office

Cable News Network, known worldwide as simply CNN, was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The company operates a cable, as well as online, news service. The company became internationally known after being the only news service to provide coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Today, the company has numerous outlets, including CNN Money, Health, international coverage, with bureaus in 31 countries, news reports via satellite radio, as well as streaming media online. CNN Films was introduced in 2012 and produces documentary type films. The company is one of the largest news organizations in the world and CNN International is the #1 leading international news in terms of viewer reach.

CNN has been involved in several controversies, including being accused by Harvard University of being slanted towards the left, especially during the 2016 presidential election. CNN is owned by Turner Broadcasting System and has headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Los Angeles Times Corporate Office

The Los Angeles Times, frequently called LA Times or simply the Times, was founded in 1881 by Nathan Cole and Thomas Gardiner. The company operates a paid daily newspaper. In 2008, the Times was the largest newspaper in circulation and the fourth most distributed newspaper in the US. The Los Angeles Times is owned by Tronc.

In 1990, the newspaper’s circulation was at an all time high of more than 1.5 million. Currently, circulation is approximately 600,000, as many readers simply prefer to read stories online. The newspaper has won 41 Pulitzer prizes, including one in 2016 for their coverage of the San Bernardino shootings.

The Los Angeles Times has virtually no major competitors, other than the local paper Los Angeles Daily News. Their former competitor, the Los Angeles Herald, went out of business in 1989.

On April 30, 2020, Charlie Plowman, publisher of Outlook Newspapers, announced he would acquire the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader and La Cañada Valley Sun from Times Community Newspapers. Plowman acquired the South Pasadena Review and San Marino Tribune in late January 2020 from the Salter family, who owned and operated these two community weeklies.

The Los Angeles Times maintains a corporate office in El Segundo, California.