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Native name | シックス・アパート株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Shikkusu Apāto kabushiki gaisha |
Company type | Private KK |
Industry | Software & Programming |
Predecessor | "Old" (San Francisco, California-based) Six Apart Ltd. (2001–2011) |
Founded | |
Founders | Benjamin Trott Mena Grabowski Trott |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Nobuhiro Seki, CEO |
Products | Movable Type Zenback TypePad |
Owner | Employee owned (2016–present) |
Parent | Infocom (Teijin) (2011–2016) |
Website | www.sixapart.com www.sixapart.jp |
Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox (the blogging platform). The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo. The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its formerly married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.[1]