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^ SMART Increases Interactive Whiteboard Product Category Share,.^ Settlement agreement of class action lawsuit Archived February 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Ontario Court of Justice.^ "Izard Nobel LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Smart".^ "Smart Technologies Inc hit by investor lawsuit over alleged securities laws violations".^ Bloomberg Smart Technologies Raises $660 Million in Second-Biggest U.S.Raises $660 Million in IPO on The NASDAQ Stock Market, Largest IPO of 2010, 16 July 2010 ^ Yahoo! Canada Finance Archived at the Wayback Machine Smart Technologies Inc.^ Innovative Interactivity (II) Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine SMART Technologies' acquisition of NextWindow: A "smart window" to the world,.^ Business Standard SMART Files Patent Infringement Against NextWindow, 3 April 2009.^ GOLIATH: Business Knowledge on Demand Smart Digital Vision Touch technology, 1 November 2003.^ Liebrecht, Deia (November 27, 2007).^ "Google releases Jamboard, a high-tech whiteboard for office meetings".^ a b "SMART founders setting a new course".Design Thinking: Understand – Improve – Apply. ^ Hasso Plattner Christoph Meinel Larry Leifer (December 13, 2010).^ "SMART Technologies - Annual Reports" (PDF).was acquired by Foxconn for $200 million. Then-CEO Neil Gaydon stated that it would save the company approximately $40 million, and cited competition in the market as part of the reason for restructuring. The company proceeded to lay off 25% of its employees. On December 11, 2012, SMART Technologies announced it would begin corporate restructuring. In April 2012, amid a declining stock price and sales resulting from decreased school board spending, both Martin and Knowlton resigned from their executive roles at Smart before leaving the board in April 2014. In 2011, Smart employed about 1,700 people. Īs of the 2011 fiscal year end, SMART Board interactive whiteboards led the interactive whiteboard category with a 63% share in the United States, 44% share in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and 47% share globally. Filed on behalf of the purchasers of the Class A Subordinate Voting Shares in Smart's IPO in July 2010, the complaints alleged that the company did not disclose important information prior to the IPO. District Courts in New York and Illinois. Later that year, several class action complaints were filed against SMART in the U.S. On JSmart Technologies placed an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), raising upwards of $660 million. In 2009, Smart filed a patent infringement lawsuit against New Zealand-based NextWindow before acquiring the company outright in 2010. In 2003, Smart developed and later patented DViT (Digital Vision Touch) technology which was an important feature of the SMART board. In 1991, Smart introduced its interactive whiteboard, branded the "SMART Board". Smart was founded in 1987 by husband and wife David Martin and Nancy Knowlton. Founded in 1987, Smart is best known as the developer of interactive whiteboards branded as the "SMART Board" popularly used in education and business. Smart Technologies (stylized as SMART Technologies) also known as Smart, is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and wholly owned by Foxconn.
