Editing Trend Micro (section)

===1988–1999===
The company was founded in 1988 in Los Angeles by Steve Chang, his wife, Jenny Chang, and her sister, Eva Chen (陳怡樺).<ref>{{cite news |title=In cybersecurity, workers must think on feet, culture czar says |first=Naomi |last=Nishihara |date=11 August 2015 |work=The Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/headlines/20150811-in-cybersecurity-workers-must-think-on-feet-culture-czar-says.ece |access-date=16 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Greenberg |first=Andy |date=4 November 2009 |title=Ten Minutes That Mattered: Trend Micro's Eva Chen |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/11/04/trend-micro-japan-intelligent-technology-chen.html |access-date=16 March 2018 |work=Forbes}}</ref> The company was established with proceeds from Steve Chang's previous sale of a copy protection [[dongle]] to a United States–based Rainbow Technologies.<ref name="International Directory of Company Histories">{{cite encyclopedia |first=M.L. |last=Cohen |chapter=Trend Micro Inc. |title=International Directory of Company Histories |volume=97 |year=2009 |editor-first=Jay P. |editor-last=Pederson |publisher=St. James Press |location=Detroit |pages=429–432}}</ref> Shortly after establishing the company, its founders moved headquarters to [[Taipei]].<ref name="Taiwan Review">{{cite news |title=Hard Sell for Software |first=Eugenia |last=Yun |date=July 2001 |url=http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=117&CtNode=1354 |work=Taiwan Review |access-date=15 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123227/http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=117&CtNode=1354 |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

In 1992, Trend Micro took over a Japanese software firm to form Trend Micro Devices and established headquarters in [[Tokyo]]. It then made an agreement with CPU maker [[Intel]], under which it produced an anti-virus product for local area networks ([[Local area network|LAN]]s) for sale under the Intel brand. Intel paid royalties to Trend Micro for sales of LANDesk Virus Protect in the United States and Europe, while Trend paid royalties to Intel for sales in Asia. In 1993, Novell began bundling the product with its network operating system.<ref name="Taiwan Review"/> In 1996, the two companies agreed to a two-year continuation of the agreement in which Trend was allowed to globally market the ServerProtect product under its own brand alongside Intel's LANDesk brand.{{Cn|date=August 2021}}

Trend Micro was listed on the [[Tokyo Stock Exchange]] in 1998 under the [[ticker symbol|ticker]] 4704.<ref name="International Directory of Company Histories"/> The company began trading on the United States–based [[NASDAQ]] stock exchange in July 1999.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Stock Listings |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=12 July 1999}}</ref>