BIGLOBE

BIGLOBE Inc.
ビッグローブ株式会社

Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Information and communication industry
Founded	July 3, 2006
Headquarters	Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Saburo Takizawa, General Manager
Revenue	104 billion yen
Owner	NEC (1986-2014) Japan Industrial Partners (2014-2017) KDDI (2017-)
Number of employees	500
Website	www.biglobe.co.jp

BIGLOBE (ビッグローブ) (combination of the words "big" and "globe") is one of the leading internet service providers in Japan.

KDDI acquired the company in January 2017 for 80 billion yen, which made it the second-largest provider of fiber optics internet connections in Japan.^[1]

Since its foundation, NEC transferred most of the related PC Engine trademarks, including games published by NEC Home Electronics in Japan to NEC BIGLOBE. As of July 2023, the trademark is jointly owned by BIGLOBE and Konami, who inherited the trademark rights from Hudson Soft before being self-absorbed into Konami themselves in March 2012.^[2] This did not include the rights of NEC Avenue and NEC Interchannel games for the system, which was previously owned by Lightweight and is currently owned by M2.^[3]^[4]

References

^ "ＫＤＤＩがビッグローブ買収発表顧客層、個人から家族へ決済・保険など「経済圏」を拡大". Nikkei. December 9, 2006. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
^ "Trademark Inquiry". j-platpat. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
^ "「PCエンジン用ゲームソフト」に関する権利譲渡のお知らせ | M2 有限会社エムツー | M2 Co., Ltd". www.mtwo.co.jp. July 21, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
^ "「PCエンジン用ゲームソフト」に関する権利譲渡のお知らせ | お知らせ | ニュース". ライトウェイト,Lightweight Co., Ltd. Retrieved August 8, 2023.

NEC

Divisions and
subsidiaries

Current	NEC Corporation of America NEC Laboratories America NEC Software Solutions UK NEC Solution Innovators NEC Unified Solutions Avaloq Netcracker Technology Avaloq KMD
Defunct	NEC BIGLOBE Electronic Arrays Packard Bell NEC Reveal Computer Products Zenith Data Systems

Joint ventures and
shareholdings

Current	Alaxala Networks (40%) Anritsu (7%) Japan Aviation Electronics (25%) NEC BIGLOBE Renesas Electronics (34%) Sharp NEC Display Solutions (34%)
Defunct	NEC Mobile Communications NEC Philips Unified Systems¹ Sony NEC Optiarc²

Products, services
and standards

Microprocessors
- 78K
- μCOM series
- µPD7220
- µPD7720
- R4200
- V20
- V25
- V60
- V850
Mobile phones
- e616
- N343i
Personal computers
Supercomputers
Video game consoles