Verance Corporation Formed.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- Leading Technology Solutions Companies ARIS ARIS American Religious Identification Survey ARIS Architecture of Integrated Information Systems ARIS Active Rack Isolation System ARIS Aggregate Route-based IP Switching ARIS Agentia Romana pentru Investitii Straine Technologies, Inc. and Solana Technology Development Corporation Merge ARIS Technologies, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ) and Solana Technology Development Corporation (San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. ) today announced the completion of the merger of their two companies forming a new technology solutions company--Verance Corporation. This positions Verance Corporation as the leader in the development and implementation of audio watermarking technology solutions focusing on the copyright management, royalty, e-commerce, marketing, information and product distribution needs emerging from the confluence of the entertainment, media and wireless telecommunications industries. "We are very excited about this merger," said Robert Warren, co-CEO of Verance Corporation. "By combining two successful multidisciplinary management and technical teams we are perfectly positioned to expand our leadership position in providing digital technology-based business solutions." "Both companies' customers in the music and media industries have been enthusiastic about the products and technology solutions we have been able to deliver in the past," said David Leibowitz, co-CEO of Verance Corporation. "With this merger we will be better able to serve the needs of this rapidly expanding client base, who are demanding more technology solutions as their industries grow in the 2lst century. In short, we are poised for leadership and success." Robert Warren and David Leibowitz will serve jointly as co-CEOs of the new corporation with offices in San Diego, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In conjunction with the birth of Verance Corporation a new website http://www.verance.com was announced. Verance has also established a new board of Directors which includes Messrs. Warren and Leibowitz who are joined by Mr. Harvey White Harvey Talbert White (born March 3, 1938) was an American football quarterback who played for the American Football League's Boston Patriots. See also
• , Chairman and 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 Leap Wireless; Mr. Greg Wertheimer, President, Chelmsford Holdings, Inc.; Mr. Clifford Friedman, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns Asset Management and Constellation Ventures; Mr. John Eger, Executive Director of the International Center for Communications and Public Policy at San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. ; and Mr. Dick Rifenburgh, non-Executive Chairman for St. George's Crystal Ltd. and Tristar Corporation. Just a few days ago, Verance Corporation was selected as the worldwide industry standard for 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. Audio copy control and for Phase I of the Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, comprised of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the (SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five ), which has developed the architecture and specifications for playing, storing, and distributing digital music. Verance Corporation assumes all patents and intellectual property rights from ARIS and Solana which includes the world's leading audio watermarking technologies, which have emerged as the core technology component for copyright protection architectures being developed for new digital media formats and distribution systems. ARIS has been pioneering in the field of Digital Signal Processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). since 1995 and was honored by Discover Magazine as the 1998 Technology of the Year in the Sound category. Solana was founded in l994 and is a leading developer of innovative audio, video and wireless communications technologies. Verance Corporation is a leader in the development and implementation of cutting-edge technical solutions focusing on copyright management, e-commerce, marketing, royalty, information and product distribution needs spanning all media from broadcast to wireless to the Internet and physical formats from analog cassette to DVD in the digital age. |
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