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Thomas Carson, longtime president and CEO of TiVo and its predecessor Rovi Corp., has announced he will retire, TiVo announced May 24. Carson will remain with the company until a s... More

Following a final TiVo shareholder vote, Rovi’s $1.1 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of the company is complete, and Rovi Sept. 8 announced it was following through on its pro... More

Rovi Corporation today announced the company has signed an intellectual property (IP) license agreement with TCL, the leading consumer electronics enterprise in China and the third... More

Rovi today announced that Pete Thompson will join the company as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective September 6, 2016. Reporting to Rovi’s president ... More

Rovi Corporation today unveiled i-Guide HD R32, a high-definition guide with a modern design user interface. i-Guide enriches the viewer's entertainment experience and provides use... More

Rovi today announced that it signed a 10-year patent renewal license agreement with DISH Network. In addition, this agreement will continue DISH’s license to Rovi’s Conversatio... More

Rovi debuted a new version of its entertainment discovery platform i-Guide, upgrading it with a new user interface and high-def support. Rovi also announced that it’s already lan... More

Rovi reported better than expected second quarter fiscal results July 28, with revenue of $125.2 million, and a slew of positive news to give investors. Excluding pre-paid pay T... More

NEW YORK — Collecting metadata is essential for companies who handle content, everything from movies and TV shows to baseball games, but there are still many challenges when it c... More

Rovi’s proposed $1.1 billion acquisition of DVR pioneer and set-top box maker TiVo moved one crucial step closer to completion today with the news that both the Federal Trade Com... More

Where is the best starting point for tackling the issue of copyright enforcement and fair artist compensation on digital platforms (artist in every sense of the word, including mus... More

Rovi Corporation has recently announced that Japan's major service provider, KDDI, selected Rovi's G-Guide HTML to enable entertainment discovery on the new Android TV based IPTV s... More

Rovi has formed a strategic alliance with leading Brazilian metadata provider, Revista Eletrônica, to offer an advanced metadata solution targeted at pay-TV and entertainment cont... More

If you think about how you set up your Netflix account and your favorites lists for your linear cable and satellite viewing, you know that eventually you’ll parse out preferences... More

Rovi issued a statement Monday to clarify that no decision has been made to exit the consumer hardware business as it moves ahead with its $1.1 billion acquisition of TiVo. The ... More

Tivo's new owner Rovi has hinted that it might get out of box retailing and focus on software and services. The source of the news is an SEC filing that records a presentation R... More

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — During the Hollywood IT Society’s (HITS) recent “Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet” event, Michael Jeffrey, VP of market solutions for R... More

Users of the Rovi-owned content discovery platform Fan TV will now have the ability to search for content via voice, with the conversational voice feature the first geared exclusiv... More

Evolution Digital, the Colorado-based supplier focused on independent MVPDs, has introduced a new user interface for the eBOX, its recently rebranded QAM/IP hybrid box, that runs o... More

The acquisition all harkens back to search. Entertainment may be a lean-back experience, but it’s also becoming a battlefield in the war for user attention, especially as streami... More