Widevine Technologies Inc

Industry:	Computer Equipment & Peripherals, Network Security Hardware & Software
Revenues:	$20 Million
Employees:	80

Description

As the leading provider of multiplatform, multiformat content security solutions for video operators, Widevine is the best choice of studios and broadcasters for protecting premium content. Widevine enables telco, cable, internet, mobile and satellite service operators to acquire and distribute premium content for maintaining and generating expanded revenue opportunities. Widevine Secure service operators are guaranteed to acquire and distribute premium studio and broadcaster content across any network to any Widevine Secure device. This guarantee further enables video operators to efficiently and affordably combat piracy. Widevine Cypher® ensures linear broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), file downloads, progressive downloads and streamed media are protected—regardless of video infrastructure, network protocols or compression technologies. An innovator of content security technologies and solutions, Widevine delivered the first renewable security client, the Cypher Virtual SmartCard to market in 2001. It extracted operator dependence on any platform, network or video format—revolutionizing the renewal speed and relegating hardware and physical solutions obsolete. Today, Widevine protects more IP-based video set-top boxes, PVRs, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices than any other content security vendor in the industry. Now, with consumption tracking and digital copy protection, for enhanced PC protection, Widevine Cypher enables content owners and internet service providers to guarantee ad-supported revenue models across the open internet to PCs—a first in the industry. Designed to thwart and identify pirates, Widevine Mensor tracks and identifies content distributed across any network—finally making it possible to identify when, where and to what consumer device content is distributed. Since 1999, Widevine has protected over $3B in studio assets with Mensor. Used in concert with Widevine Cypher, video operators can enjoy earlier release windows for premium content distribution. Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Bear Stearns Constellation Ventures, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

Products & Services

downloadable content protection, content security solutions, forensic watermarking, downloadable conditional access, digital rights management

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Patent No. 7,594,271 Issued on Sept. 22, Assigned to Widevine Technologies for Real Time Tamper Evidence Gathering Method (Washington Inventors) US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/28/2009 ...software. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,594,271 on Sept. 22. The patent has been assigned to Widevine Technologies Inc., Seattle. According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method... ...more

Web Players Add Partners.(Brightcove Inc.)(ThePlatform) Multichannel News; 9/14/2009 ...Existing partners include Akamai Technologies, Adobe Systems, Microsoft, Move Networks, Harmonic's Rhozet and Widevine Technologies. A list of thePlatform's partners is available on its Web site. "In an increasingly robust online video environment... ...more

Sonic Solutions(R) (NASDAQ: SNIC) Hot Stock on the Move! M2 Presswire; 6/8/2009 ...either registered trademarks or trademarks of Widevine Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are...specifications are subject to change. The descriptions of Widevine Technologies' patents and other intellectual property herein... ...more