Freecom

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Freecom Technologies GmbH
Company typePrivate
IndustryElectronics
Founded1989; 37 years ago (1989)
Founder
  • Dick Hoogerdijk
  • Axel Lucassen
Headquarters,
Germany
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsComputer hardware
OwnerVerbatim (100%)
ParentVerbatim
Websitewww.freecom.de

Freecom Technologies GmbH is a German manufacturer of computer peripherals. Its products include USB hard disks (where the actual hard drive is manufactured by Samsung and others), USB flash drives, USB DVB-T television receivers and a data recovery service. The original President and CEO was Dick C. Hoogerdijk[1] and Managing Director is Axel Lucassen.[2] It is the first company to release an external hard drive to USB 3.02 standards.[3]

The company was founded in 1989 and sold to Verbatim in 2009.[4]

In 2009 the company announced one of the first commercially available USB 3.0 external hard drives.[5][6]

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