TiVo Sues Samsung, And Predicts Growth From New Deals
TiVo has several answers this afternoon for investors wondering how the DVR pioneer plans to grow in a period when Comcast and other major pay TV providers worry about cord cutting — and hope to slow...
View ArticleTiVo’s Tom Rogers Gives Up CEO Job, But Will Stay As Chairman
This is a big change for TiVo, whose stock price has declined nearly 34% over the last 12 months. The company says that CEO Tom Rogers will give up the top job at the end of January, but remain as the...
View ArticleTiVo Reports Record Sub Growth As It Starts To Look For A New CEO
TiVo’s had a hard time persuading Wall Street that there’s still a place for its DVRs in an increasingly competitive market for TV boxes. But its just-released report for the quarter ending in October,...
View ArticleTiVo Shares Soar On Report It May Sell Itself To Rovi
TiVo shares fast-fowarded 20% this morning on a report that Rovi is preparing to offer cash and stock to buy the beleaguered DVR pioneer. The negotiations are “at a sensitive stage” and could fall...
View ArticleRovi Shares Hit After It Sues Comcast For Patent Infringement
Updated with Comcast response: Comcast has a lot riding on its set top boxes, especially its X1 — so it has to be concerned about the patent infringement suit that digital technology company Rovi just...
View ArticleRovi Corp. Set To Acquire TiVo In $1.1B Cash & Stock Deal
Entertainment tech company Rovi Corp. said this morning that it has completed a deal to acquire DVR maker TiVo for $1.1 billion in cash and stock. The new $3 billion aggregate, which will take the TiVo...
View ArticleRovi Changes Its Name To TiVo As It Closes Acquisition Of DVR Pioneer
It’s time to say goodbye, sort of, to the company whose pioneering DVR introduced consumers to time shifting and ad skipping. Some 17 years after it went public, TiVo just became a part of Rovi with...
View ArticleTiVo Settles DVR Patent Infringement Suit Against Samsung
Samsung no longer has to fear a patent infringement suit from TiVo: The DVR pioneer — recently bought by Rovi, which changed its name — announced today a “broad intellectual property license” with...
View ArticleTiVo Names Enrique Rodriguez As The Company’s New President and CEO
TiVo, the pioneer in time-shifted TV, said its board of directors elected Enrique Rodriguez to the position of president and CEO effective today. He also joins the company’s board. Rodriguez has worked...
View ArticleTiVo Shares Drop As CEO Quits Less Than A Year After Taking The Helm
TiVo Corp., which is already reviewing its strategic options as a company, said its CEO made a “personal decision” to resign less than a year in the role. Enrique Rodriguez is becoming chief technology...
View ArticleAmazon Working On DVR For The Streaming Era – Report
Amazon is working on a new DVR device for the streaming era that that would be a household’s hub for the company’s online video. Citing sources, Bloomberg reports that the gadget — known in-house as...
View ArticleIn $3B Deal, TiVo Merges With Xperi To Create Licensing And IP Heavyweight
TiVo, known as the pioneer of delayed viewing of television, has merged with entertainment tech firm Xperi in a $3 billion, all-stock deal. The combined company will be “one of the industry’s largest...
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