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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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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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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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Rovi Corporation Appoints Thomas Carson as President and Chief Executive Officer
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announced the appointment of Dave Shull as the company's new president and CEO.
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In December 2019, TiVo Corporation announced their intent to merge with
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The company also bought two companies providing entertainment metadata:
2063:"Rovi announces agreement to acquire Sonic Solutions for $ 720 million"
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965:"From TV trailblazer to IP afterthought: TiVo bought for $ 1.1 billion"
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1645:"TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $ 3 Billion Deal"
1552:"Facebook Partners With Rovi To Bring In-Depth Video Content To Users"
1125:"William A. Krepick: Executive Profile & Biography – Businessweek"
1028:"TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $ 3 Billion Deal"
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Rovi provides guides for service providers and CE manufacturers.
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Ars Technica: "Digitizing video signals might violate the DMCA"
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1431:"Rovi Promotes Thomas Carson to CEO | InteractiveTV Today"
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1789:"Rovi To Acquire TiVo. Strategic Fit Or A Synergy Play?"
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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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Manufacturing companies based in San Jose, California
1957:"Press Releases – Next Generation Media Guide – Rovi"
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33:"Rovi" redirects here. For the Welsh magician, see
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932:"XNAS:ROVI Rovi Corp Annual Report 8-K Filling"
869:On April 1, 2013, Rovi acquired Integral Reach.
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714:-provided "processor box" used by duplicators.
2427:Historical business data for TiVO Corporation:
1758:"Rovi's Veveo Deal Is Something to Talk About"
1095:"John Ryan: Executive Profile & Biography"
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1931:"Rovi-Acquires-Mediabolic-For-$ 43,500,000"
1875:"Macrovision moves to acquire Midbar group"
1732:"You might actually want a TiVo TV someday"
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1521:"5 Notable Rovi Acquisitions Before TiVo"
1401:"Rovi Corp. (ROVI) CEO Amoroso to Retire"
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1371:"Rovi Buys Sidereel, Expands to the Web"
852:On May 5, 2011, Rovi acquired DigiForge.
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994:Gartenberg, Chaim (December 19, 2019).
342:On December 19, 2019, TiVo merged with
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1643:Spangler, Todd (December 19, 2019).
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1581:Picker, Leslie (April 29, 2016).
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855:In 2012, Rovi acquired Snapstick.
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290:Macrovision Solutions Corporation
2281:"Rovi acquires DVR company TiVo"
2008:Kaplan, David (April 15, 2009).
1933:. VentureDeal. January 3, 2007.
1907:. AfterDawn. November 24, 2005.
1675:"Xperi and TiVo Complete Merger"
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1320:from the original on May 6, 2016
886:for approximately $ 1.1 billion.
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2035:Ali, Rafat (March 16, 2010).
1905:"DVD Decrypter to be removed"
1612:Brodkin, Jon (June 6, 2016).
1550:Yeung, Ken (April 16, 2013).
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19:Not to be confused with
2385:Rovi Acquires DigiForge
1465:GlobeNewswire News Room
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405:exceeding $ 1 billion.
382:digital video recorders
327:In 2016, Rovi acquired
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1525:Broadcasting and Cable
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938:. December 31, 2017.
816:Cryptography Research
763:intellectual property
473:Rovi Corporation logo
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411:Macrovision acquired
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1679:www.businesswire.com
628:predictive analytics
308:industry, including
306:consumer electronics
296:. Now operating as
294:San Jose, California
213:San Jose, California
2146:Private Equity Wire
1047:The Free Lance-Star
902:DCS Copy Protection
769:from its developer.
517:As TiVo Corporation
461:on April 15, 2009.
424:Thoma Cressey Bravo
257:Number of employees
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2343:2007-09-29 at the
2331:2006-09-03 at the
2319:2003-02-07 at the
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1963:on October 8, 2011
1587:The New York Times
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1185:The New York Times
740:Cactus Data Shield
708:Conditional Access
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1156:(Press release).
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