Dennis Mudd, Musicmatch Co-founder and Former CEO, Joins Simple Star's Board of Directors.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Simple Star, the leading independent provider of easy-to-use consumer imaging products and services for industry leaders including Comcast, Walgreens, Snapfish, Ritz, Shutterfly, Pentax and Nero, today announced that Dennis Mudd, Co-founder and Former CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Musicmatch, has joined its Board of Directors. Mudd revolutionized how people listen to, find and purchase their music in 1997 when he launched Musicmatch, the world's first jukebox A storage device for multiple sets of CD-ROMs, DVDs, tape cartridges or disk modules. Using carousels, robot arms and other methods, a jukebox physically moves the storage medium from its assigned location to an optical or magnetic station for reading and writing. software program, which turned PCs into personal jukeboxes containing music downloaded from the Web and recorded from CDs. Musicmatch was later bundled with Dell and Hewlett-Packard PCs as well as a wide range of computer peripheral devices Computer peripheral devices Any device connected internally or externally to a computer and used in the transfer of data. A personal computer or workstation processes information and, strictly speaking, that is all the computer does. . By 2003, the company earned annual revenues of more than $50 million. Musicmatch was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004 for $160 million. Prior to co-founding Musicmatch, Mudd spent 10 years with Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for worldwide product management of HP's large format printer business and for managing HP's consumer printer and scanner business in the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. region. Before that, Mudd was responsible for development of new magnetic media products at Eastman Kodak's Verbatim division. Mudd earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a B.S. degree in Business with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . "Dennis' experience with consumer desktop products that integrate into online services will be critical to Simple Star as we continue to build partnerships with MSOs, digital media software providers, online photo services, retailers with photofinishing pho·to·fin·ish·ing n. The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers. pho services and others," said Chad Richard, Chief Executive Officer of Simple Star, who has followed Mudd's career for over nine years. "We also look forward to tapping his expertise as an operational entrepreneur." "Simple Star has built an excellent set of products and services to help its partners offer new and innovative imaging solutions to their customers. There are striking similarities between what Simple Star is doing in the digital imaging market and what Musicmatch was doing in the digital music market," said Mudd. "I'm looking forward to sharing the best practices we learned at Musicmatch with the Simple Star management team." Simple Star's PhotoShow platform allows consumers to do anything they want with their photos, from simple organizing, archiving and printing to creating and sharing movie-like PhotoShows. The latest version, "PhotoShow Deluxe 4," includes a one-year membership to PhotoShow Circle. PhotoShow Circle is the online service that enables consumers to share their photo memories by creating personalized Websites. PhotoShow's integrated DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Service is the first of its kind and enables consumers to easily order custom DVDs of their PhotoShows. Consumers can print photos to more than 25,000 retail locations, including Walgreens and Ritz Camera Centers Beltsville, Maryland-based Ritz Camera Centers operates a chain of approximately 1,200 photography stores located in 48 states and the District of Columbia. These stores offer a variety of photography products and services, including one-hour photofinishing, digital imaging, and . The PhotoShow product line and integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. are available in 12 languages. About Simple Star, Inc. Founded in 2001, Simple Star provides easy-to-use products and services that help consumers share their memories in entertaining ways through PhotoShow, the most complete photo platform available. Simple Star distributes its award-winning PhotoShow solution primarily through partners such as MSOs, digital media software providers, online photo services, retailers with photo finishing services and hardware manufacturers. Simple Star partners include industry leaders such as Comcast, Cablevision, Nero, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Ritz Camera Centers, Walgreens, Pentax and Vivitar. Musicmatch is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc. Simple Star, PhotoShow, PhotoShow DVD and PhotoShow Circle are trademarks of Simple Star, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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