Tucows was formed in Flint, Michigan, USA in 1993. It incorporated in Pennsylvania and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is perhaps best known for its popular website directory of shareware, freeware, and demo software packages available to download. A system of mirror sites is maintained to allow the traffic to the site to be distributed among several worldwide server locations. Tucows contains software for many major computer platforms including Windows, Linux and Macintosh, and also older versions of Windows . The Tucows logo is two cows' heads, a play on the... homophone "two cows". Additionally, their ratings system uses cow icons. Scott Swedorski started Tucows in 1993 to provide users with downloads of both freeware and trial versions of shareware. Internet Direct, owned and operated by John Nemanic, Bill Campbell, and Colin Campbell, acquired Tucows in 1996. STI Ventures acquired Tucows in 1999. The company employed roughly 30 employees in Flint in 1998. There were additional employees in Canada.
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| Headquarters: | Starkville, Mississippi |
| Legal structure: | Public company |
| Annual revenue: | $78,470,000 |
| Operating income: | $-3,090,000 |
| Market cap: | $43,000,000 |
| Industries: | Computer software, Computer Processing and Data Preparation and Processing Services, Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals |