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Entertainment Store business. It entered into separate agreements to sell the Rovi Entertainment Store to Reliance Majestic Holdings, a private equity-backed company; and its consumer websites to All Media Networks, a new company, in July 2013. Continuing on this path, the company made a similar announcement in January 2014 indicating its intent to sell the DivX and MainConcept businesses.
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Rovi provides entertainment metadata for consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, retailers, online portals and application developers around the world. The company has over 50 years of metadata for video, music, books, and games covering more than 5 million movies and TV programs, 3.2
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to provide TV audience insights and advertising campaign management. Ad
Optimizer allows provides campaign management and media planning capabilities to TV networks and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). Promo Optimizer uses past viewing data to enable cable and broadcast networks
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January 7, 2010 – TotalGuide, an interactive media guide that incorporated entertainment data, to search, browse and provide recommendations. On March 16, 2010, Rovi acquired MediaUnbound for an undisclosed amount. MediaUnbound had helped build static and dynamic
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Rovi Search
Service allows consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, and developers to provide solutions that enable consumers to search for and access desired content. Rovi Recommendations Service is a cloud-based service that offers consumers entertainment choices similar to their
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Macrovision introduced its RipGuard technology in
February 2005. It was designed to prevent or reduce digital DVD copying by altering the format of the DVD content to disrupt the ripping software. Although the technology could be circumvented by several current DVD rippers such as
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million album releases and 30 million song tracks, 9 million in-print and out-of-print book titles, and 70,000 video games. The metadata includes basic facts, local TV listings and channel line-ups for interactive program guides, original editorial, imagery, and other features.
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for $ 1.1 billion. The combined company operated under the TiVo brand, and held over 6,000 pending and registered patents. Rovi plans to discontinue in-house hardware production, and focus primarily on licensing its technologies and the TiVo brand to third-party companies.
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personalization and recommendation engines for clients such as
Napster, eMusic and MTV Networks. On June 16, 2010, the company announced the Rovi Advertising Network which bundled guide advertising and third-party interactive TV platforms.
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music copy protection solution for $ 17 million. Additionally the same year, Macrovision acquired all the music copy protection and digital rights management (DRM) assets of TTR Technologies (formerly NASDAQ listed under the ticker
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Rovi
Advertising Service enables the monetization of entertainment platforms. It places ads that appear as content choices in application menus and user interfaces for set-top boxes, connected TVs, smartphones, tablets,
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video software in a deal valued at $ 720 million. Sonic provided digital video processing, playback and distribution technologies and owned RoxioNow (formerly CinemaNow) an OTT technology provider.
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2209:"Video Discovery Specialist Rovi Acquires Voice Search Startup Veveo For Up To $ 69 Million"
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Rovi Corporation Appoints Thomas Carson as President and Chief Executive Officer
1192:"Macrovision Agrees to Buy Gemstar-TV Guide for $ 2.8 Billion in Stock and Cash"
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The company also bought two companies providing entertainment metadata:
2074:"Rovi announces agreement to acquire Sonic Solutions for $ 720 million"
1321:"Rovi announces agreement to acquire Sonic Solutions for $ 720 million"
976:"From TV trailblazer to IP afterthought: TiVo bought for $ 1.1 billion"
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On March 1, 2011, Rovi announced its acquisition of online video guide
1656:"TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $ 3 Billion Deal"
1563:"Facebook Partners With Rovi To Bring In-Depth Video Content To Users"
1136:"William A. Krepick: Executive Profile & Biography – Businessweek"
1039:"TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $ 3 Billion Deal"
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1502:"Rovi Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2013 Financial Performance"
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2183:"Rovi Debuts Entertainment Analytics, Big Data for Multiscreen"
1994:"Macrovision Agrees to Acquire Gemstar-TV Guide. :: Rovi"
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2153:"Corel completes acquisition of Roxio from Rovi Corporation"
2021:"Macrovision Buys Metadata Provider Muze For $ 16.5 Million"
1856:"Macrovision Completes Acquisition of GLOBEtrotter Software"
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1442:"Rovi Promotes Thomas Carson to CEO | InteractiveTV Today"
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Realnetworks Acquires Game Distributor From Macrovision
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Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet
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chosen program, movie, album, track, musician or band.
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880:On April 1, 2013, Rovi acquired Integral Reach.
749:company Midbar Technologies, developers of the
725:-provided "processor box" used by duplicators.
2438:Historical business data for TiVO Corporation:
1769:"Rovi's Veveo Deal Is Something to Talk About"
1106:"John Ryan: Executive Profile & Biography"
2102:. Appmarket.tv. March 1, 2011. Archived from
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429:After the announcement of its intent to buy
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1942:"Rovi-Acquires-Mediabolic-For-$ 43,500,000"
1886:"Macrovision moves to acquire Midbar group"
1743:"You might actually want a TiVo TV someday"
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2325:Fil's FAQ-Link-In Corner: MacroVision FAQ
1532:"5 Notable Rovi Acquisitions Before TiVo"
1412:"Rovi Corp. (ROVI) CEO Amoroso to Retire"
1094:. Columbia University Press. p. 180.
2492:Technology companies established in 1983
2361:Macrovision Agrees to Sell Software Unit
1382:"Rovi Buys Sidereel, Expands to the Web"
863:On May 5, 2011, Rovi acquired DigiForge.
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1767:Frazier, David N. (February 27, 2014).
1052:De Atley, Richard (September 7, 1985).
1005:Gartenberg, Chaim (December 19, 2019).
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353:On December 19, 2019, TiVo merged with
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1594:"Rovi Buys TiVo in $ 1.1 Billion Deal"
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982:. Conde Nast Digital. April 29, 2016.
2337:MPAA | DVD Frequently Asked Questions
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1654:Spangler, Todd (December 19, 2019).
1060:. Associated Press. pp. 12–TV.
883:On February 25, 2014, Rovi acquired
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1190:Stelter, Brian (December 8, 2007).
1037:Todd Spangler (December 19, 2019).
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262:US$ 3,163,678,000 (2017-12-31)
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1741:Newman, Jared (January 31, 2023).
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1478:(Press release). January 3, 2013.
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2349:Columbia ISA: Macrovision Details
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1592:Picker, Leslie (April 29, 2016).
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866:In 2012, Rovi acquired Snapstick.
738:, which was subsequently renamed
301:Macrovision Solutions Corporation
2292:"Rovi acquires DVR company TiVo"
2019:Kaplan, David (April 15, 2009).
1944:. VentureDeal. January 3, 2007.
1918:. AfterDawn. November 24, 2005.
1686:"Xperi and TiVo Complete Merger"
1604:from the original on May 2, 2016
1331:from the original on May 6, 2016
897:for approximately $ 1.1 billion.
856:On March 1, 2011, Rovi acquired
357:; the combined firm operates as
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122:Digital entertainment technology
2290:Snider, Mike (April 29, 2016).
1259:Lawler, Ryan (March 16, 2010).
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2267:. rovi.com. November 3, 2014.
1970:. Rovicorp.com. Archived from
1035:Dec. 2019/completed June 2020
794:In 2006, Macrovision acquired
757:In 2004, Macrovision acquired
745:In 2002, Macrovision acquired
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2532:2020 mergers and acquisitions
2527:1997 initial public offerings
2046:Ali, Rafat (March 16, 2010).
1916:"DVD Decrypter to be removed"
1623:Brodkin, Jon (June 6, 2016).
1561:Yeung, Ken (April 16, 2013).
918:Automatic content recognition
2125:Jim Barthold (May 6, 2011).
908:TiVo digital video recorders
869:In February 2012, Rovi sold
373:Macrovision Corporation logo
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611:Search and Recommendations
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1083:Decherney, Peter (2012).
596:Digital terminal adapters
575:(OTT) entertainment, and
321:digital rights management
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2187:Streaming Media Magazine
673:Analog Protection System
667:Analog Protection System
633:Rovi Audience Management
325:electronic program guide
295:, formerly known as the
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30:Not to be confused with
2396:Rovi Acquires DigiForge
1476:GlobeNewswire News Room
416:exceeding $ 1 billion.
393:digital video recorders
338:In 2016, Rovi acquired
126:Digital video recorders
18:Macrovision Corporation
1536:Broadcasting and Cable
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1892:. November 11, 2002.
1862:. September 1, 2000.
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827:Cryptography Research
774:intellectual property
484:Rovi Corporation logo
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422:Macrovision acquired
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313:intellectual property
185:; 4 years ago
1690:www.businesswire.com
639:predictive analytics
319:industry, including
317:consumer electronics
307:. Now operating as
305:San Jose, California
224:San Jose, California
2157:Private Equity Wire
1058:The Free Lance-Star
913:DCS Copy Protection
780:from its developer.
528:As TiVo Corporation
472:on April 15, 2009.
435:Thoma Cressey Bravo
268:Number of employees
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2342:2006-09-03 at the
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1974:on October 8, 2011
1598:The New York Times
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1196:The New York Times
751:Cactus Data Shield
719:Conditional Access
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1167:(Press release).
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