ghosty12 opened this issue on Oct 28, 2015 · 502 posts
WandW posted Sat, 31 October 2015 at 11:07 AM
Zev0 posted at 11:31AM Sat, 31 October 2015 - #4235788
WandW posted at 5:08PM Thu, 29 October 2015 - #4235778
DAZ is no longer a small shop run by a group of artists, but is now but one small piece of a $80 Billion dollar corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and has to contribute to their bottom line...
Say what now?
Sorry for the delay, Zev, as I got no eBots.
Yes, DAZ is owned by NTT DOMOCO Innovations, formerly (until 1 October) NTT DOMOCO Capital, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DoMoCo, the largest wireless carrier in Japan, which is majority owned and controlled by NTT, the big Japanese telecom company. They had a huge stake in Gizmoz, which merged with DAZ in 2009, and apparently acquired the rest of DAZ in 2011. Here is a list of companies they own...
https://www.docomoinnovations.com/portfolio
Regarding Terry's comment about Poser's ownership, (which I suppose was off topic here 
) Yes, Poser has been owned by other software companies for over a decade (and was bought by MetaCreations back in the 1990s before being spun off into Curious Labs as well). However, Poser's management has remained mostly intact through this period, unlike at DAZ, where most (along with many of their in-house artists) were shown the door...
EDIT; Highway 12 Ventures apparently still has a stake; info on privately held companies is hard to find...
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