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20 years ago 1995 12 as jfax headquarters hollywood california u.s. area served worldwide key people richard ressler chairman hemi zucker ceo scott turicchi president & cfo harmeet singh president cloud connect jeremy rossen general counsel services efax evoice onebox keepitsafe fusemail campaigner number of employees over 1600 2015 1 subsidiaries ziff davis ign pc mag askmen.com geek.com website j2global.com j2 global inc. is an american publicly traded technology company based in los angeles california . the company provides internet services through two divisions business cloud services and digital media . 2 contents 1 history 2 brands and subsidiaries 3 awards 4 criticism 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit j2 global was founded in december 1995 as jfax . 3 the company changed its registered name to j2 global communications inc. on august 2000 4 and again to j2 global on december 7 2011 dropping communications from its official name to reflect ... expansion from phone number centric services ... into complementary lines of non phone number centric services . 5 on november 12 2012 j2 global launched its digital media division with the acquisition of digital publisher ziff davis inc. for 167 million in cash . 6 on february 4 2013 j2 global announced that it had more than doubled the size of its digital media division s business with the acquisition of ign entertainment from news corp. 7 terms of the ign acquisition were not announced . on march 18 2013 the company announced it had acquired metrofax a bellevue washington provider of internet faxing services . 8 on april 17 2013 the company acquired backup connect bv a dutch provider of online backup services . 9 on 19 november 2013 its media division ziff davis announced it acquired electronics aggregating website techbargain.com . in february j2 global announced the acquisition of several companies city numbers a uk based worldwide provider of inbound toll free numbers in over 80 countries ; 10 livedrive a uk based provider of online backup ; 11 and australian companies ozefax and faxmate . 12 on 3 april 13 2014 j2 global announced that it acquired business critical software also known as icritical a uk based email security and management company . 14 as of 2014 j2 global has a network that covers 49 countries on six continents . as of december 31 2013 j2 global reported 18 consecutive fiscal years of revenue growth . 15 brands and subsidiaries edit j2 global inc. provides internet services through its two divisions business cloud services and digital media . business cloud services brands include efax myfax onebox evoice fusemail campaigner keepitsafe vaultlogix callstream yotta280 mailout interactive gdv backup solutions sugarsync nuvotera unityfax firstway digital excel micro web24 group mxsweep city numbers livedrive metrofax trustfax rapidfax send2fax and fax.com . the digital media division delivers various content through its digital properties including ziff davis including pc magazine computershopper extremetech toolbox.com and geek.com ign entertainment including askmen 1up . com and ugo.com offers.com and netshelter including androidcentral.com macrumors.com neoseeker.com slashgear.com and techspot.com . 16 awards edit in september 2012 j2 global was recognized on the informationweek 500 list of technology companies . 17 in 2013 j2 global was ranked number 40 in forbes list of america s best small companies . 18 criticism edit the neutrality of this section is disputed . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message some j2 global companies have been the target of complaints ranging from number portability to issues with its contract providing no refunds on early termination . citation needed it has targeted various competing providers with patent litigation including callwave 19 comodo easylink services international corporation 20 open text packetel protus venali and vitelity . citation needed many of these companies have filed counter claims some of which allege antitrust violations of section 2 of the sherman act and california s business and professions code 16720 and 17200 . 21 j2 global has also received complaints for making it difficult for subscribers to leave the service through high cancellation fees and lack of toll free number portability in certain cases . 22 citation needed clients of companies acquired by j2 global such as efax and onebox have complained that toll free number portability which was provided before the companies were acquired has been removed and that j2 global or its newly acquired subsidiaries claim that it owns the telephone numbers associated with the service . citation needed see also edit efax references edit http www.j2global.com company j2 global communications hoovers overview . hoovers www.hoovers.com . 2011 12 13 . retrieved 2011 12 13 . http www.forbes.com 2004 02 04 cx ah 0204j2global.html arik hesseldahl at forbes.com the fax of business life . 02.04.04 . ; retrieved at may 23 2012 . http investor.j2global.com releasedetail.cfm releaseid 197687 j2 press release jfax.com evolves to become j2 global communications ; company is launching new business services new website and new name . august 10 2000 retrieved on may 23 2012 . j2 global communications inc. becomes j2 global inc. . yahoo news finance.yahoo.com.com . 2011 07 11 . retrieved 2011 07 11 . dead link j2 global acquires ziff davis inc. . 2012 11 12 . retrieved 2012 11 12 . ign entertainment sold to j2 global . 2013 02 04 . retrieved 2013 02 04 . j2 global acquires metrofax . 2013 03 18 . retrieved 2013 03 18 . j2 acquires dutch online backup business backup connect bv . 2013 04 17 . retrieved 2013 04 17 . j2 global acquires uk based phone number provider city numbers . yahoo finance . 6 february 2014 . retrieved 30 september 2014 . j2 global acquires livedrive ; j2 s online backup annualized monthly run rate exceeds 40m . yahoo finance . 10 february 2014 . retrieved 30 september 2014 . j2 global acquires australian companies ozefax and faxmate . yahoo finance . 11 february 2014 . retrieved 30 september 2014 . vcpost staff reporter 21 november 2013 . ziff davis acquires techbargains.com . venture capital post . retrieved 30 september 2014 . j2 global acquires uk email security and management business critical software ltd. . yahoo finance . 3 april 2014 . retrieved 30 september 2014 . j2 global reports q4 and year end 2013 results and provides 2014 outlook . yahoo finance . 13 february 2014 . retrieved 29 october 2014 . j2global acquires sugarsync findafax.com . 2015 04 05 . retrieved 2016 07 13 . informationweek 500 award badenhausen kurt 9 october 2013 . america s best small companies . forbes . retrieved 30 september 2014 . j2 global files patent infringement suit against callwave inc. . j2 global files patent infringement suits against protus ip solutions inc captaris inc. and easylink services international corporation . http www.getfilings.com sec filings 100223 j2 global communications inc 10 k bbb complaints . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title j2 global & oldid 743512457 categories companies based in los angelescompanies established in 1995hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2012wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from november 2014articles with a promotional tone from november 2014all articles with a promotional tonenpov disputes from october 2014all npov disputesarticles needing additional references from april 2016all articles needing additional referencesnpov disputes from november 2014all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2016articles with unsourced statements from november 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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