as nasdaq cdrb industry computer software founded kahului hawaii october 20 2006 2006 10 20 founder arben kane headquarters kahului hawaii united states area served worldwide key people arben kane alex kukhar volodymyr bykov products irapp irapp ts services remote desktop services mac terminal services website coderebel.com code rebel corporation is an american technology company founded by arben kane and headquartered in kahului hawaii united states . the company develops manufactures licenses supports and sells computer software and is best known for its terminal services and virtualization software principally for apple inc. products . 1 code rebel markets and distributes its software products through both direct sales and a reseller program . 1 customers included fortune 500 companies by late 2014 including at & t microsoft cisco ibm bloomberg and the university of california . 1 code rebel went public in may 2015 2 and in early 2016 code rebel announced an upcoming merger with aegis identity software inc. 3 code rebel s shares doubled in market value after the announcement 4 with the merger made official on march 11 2016 . 5 contents 1 history 1.1 founding and early years 2006 2014 2 technology 3 legal 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit founding and early years 2006 2014 edit the software technology company code rebel was founded by software engineer arben kane in 2006 with headquarters in kahului hawaii united states . alex kukhar and volodymyr bykov who became part of the core engineering team also co founded the company . 6 kane became ceo and chairman . 7 the initial idea behind code rebel was to create a new object oriented remote access protocol that would allow the user to access a specific application and its active state . 6 the company went on to develop manufacture license support and sell computer software typically related to terminal services and virtualization software for apple inc. products . 8 in particular the company is known for its remote access software application called irapp and a mac terminal services application called irapp terminal server irapp ts . 9 as the company grew it began catering software to companies such as intuit bloomberg and wells fargo . code rebel later relocated to the united states mainland setting up an office in new york city . 10 in october 2010 university of alabama s management information systems program announced a partnership with code rebel llc to create apple ipod touch iphone and ipad applications . 11 kane was supervising around 50 software engineers and designers by 2014 largely in the united states and europe . 1 customers included fortune 500 companies by late 2014 including at & t microsoft cisco ibm bloomberg lloyds bank merck panasonic and ikea as well as organizations such as the university of california university of texas and university of missouri . 1 code rebel markets and distributes its software products through both direct sales and a reseller program . the company had a network of 17 resellers in nine countries by 2015 . 1 code rebel went public in may 2015 in the first ipo for a hawaii technology company since 2000 and is listed on the nasdaq stock exchange . 2 by its second day of trading the company s stock was up over 200 % from its initial offering price . 2 dr. james canton joined code rebel as director in 2015 . 12 on july 28 2015 code rebel announced it had acquired thinops resources 8 for 9.25 million . 8 10 external video code rebel ceo interview . march 30 2016 . on january 14 2016 code rebel announced that it would likely merge with aegis identity software inc. 3 which is a private software company in colorado 4 that provides on premise sic and cloud based identity and access management products and services for the k 12 and higher education markets . 3 after the announcement code rebel s shares doubled in market value . 4 13 a definitive merger agreement between the two companies was signed on march 11 2016 . 5 14 aegis identity s ceo stated that aegis would continue to maitain its branding with the two companies working as a joint operation . 15 16 technology edit the company developed a remote access software application called irapp and a mac terminal services application called irapp terminal server irapp ts . irapp allows users to remotely access their mac desktop through the irapp protocol which allows the user to work simultaneously on both pc and mac or they can use any rdp microsoft s remote desktop protocol compliant application for the remote access . irapp ts allows the user to access multiple virtual desktops on one or multiple mac machines concurrently comparable to the citrix solution for mac . 17 this focus on apple solutions contrasts with most terminal services and virtualization providers such as vmware red hat microsoft and citrix systems which have historically offered microsoft windows based solutions . 17 legal edit in 2005 the owner of code rebel arben kane was associated with the controversial cherry os project . critics alleged that cherryos contained code grafted from pearpc which would have been a violation of the gnu general public license . 18 in march of 2011 code rebel s competitor aqua connect inc. filed suit against code rebel claiming misappropriation of trade secrets . 19 the cherry os controversy was used by aqua connect s lawyers in an attempt to discredit code rebel and kane . 20 after partial dismissal first amendment 19 and second dismissal 21 22 23 24 the case was referred to binding arbitration by agreement of the parties . code rebel prevailed in the arbitration and on august 19 2014 the united states district court for the central district of california entered judgment in favor of code rebel on all claims stating aqua connect has failed to establish any act of reverse engineering by code rebel or any other illegal act . 25 in june 2013 code rebel filed its own lawsuit against aqua connect in the united states district court for the central district of california alleging among other things false and misleading comments made by aqua connect as part of a pattern of trade libel business interference and unfair business practices designed to denigrate the quality and development of code rebel s products . on october 14 2014 the district court entered a monetary judgment in favor of code rebel and against aqua connect . 26 27 on may 6 2016 the securities and exchange commission suspended trading of code rebel stock until may 19 2016 so that their previous filings could be examined . 28 on may 18th 2016 it filled for insolvency according chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy act . 29 see also edit computers portal remote desktop services remote desktop software comparison of remote desktop software references edit a b c d e f code rebel . venture beat profiles . retrieved 2016 03 14 . a b c stock price for maui based software firm code rebel soars after ipo . pacific business news . 2015 05 20 . retrieved 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