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NDS Group
Cisco Videoscape (formerly NDS Group and currently known as Synamedia) was a majority owned subsidiary of News Corp, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012 before being sold back to the private equity company Permira in 2018 for US$1 billion. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom. Filling The Executive Chairman and CEO roles at NDS is Abe Peled with former CEO Dave Habiger having left in 2012. The company's major product is the VideoGuard conditional access system, which is used by more than 85 leading pay TV operators around the world. NDS technology includes end to end connections for satellite, broadband IPTV, Hybrid, OTT, and EPGs. It has launched VideoGuard Connect, the DRM for Pay-TV, designed to help TV operators to seamlessly extend their pay-TV services to connected media devices, enabling secu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Habiger
David Habiger (born February 19, 1969) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who is the president and CEO of J.D. Power. Early life and education Habiger was born in Joliet, Illinois. His father was a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. In the late-1970s, his mother was engaged in the computer revolution and introduced Dave to technology at an early age. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from St. Norbert College and began producing documentaries after graduation. In 1991, he founded Providence Productions, which focused on funding, producing, and distributing documentaries. In 1997, he received his MBA from the University of Chicago. Career He began working with the ex-Lucasfilm team and founding members of Sonic Solutions in 1992, where he served as president and chief executive officer. Under his leadership, Sonic became one of the largest global providers of premium movies and TV shows via the internet and consumer electronic devices. He empha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division (business)
A division, sometimes called a business sector or business unit (segment), is one of the parts into which a business, organization or company is divided. Overview Divisions are distinct parts of a business. If these divisions are all part of the same company, then that company is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the divisions. In the banking industry, an example would be East West Bancorp and its primary subsidiary, East West Bank. Legal responsibility Subsidiaries are separate, distinct Commercial law, legal entities for the purposes of taxation, regulation and Legal liability, liability. For this reason, they differ from divisions, which are businesses fully integrated within the main company, and not legally or otherwise distinct from it. The ''Houston Chronicle'' highlighted that the creation of a division "is substantially easier than developing subsidiaries. Because a division is an internal segment of a company, not an entirely separate enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NDS Rainbow
NDS may stand for: * Low German ( nl, Nedersaksisch, links=no, german: Niederdeutsche Sprache, links=no, ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands * Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen, links=no), a federal state of Germany * NDS Group, a company specializing in television technology, including digital rights management, renamed Cisco Videoscape after its acquisition ** NDS is also used as shorthand for VideoGuard, the encryption system created by NDS Group * National Directorate of Security, the primary foreign and domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan * Nintendo DS, a 2004 portable game system * Novell Directory Services, former name for NetIQ eDirectory, directory service software for a network * New Data Seal, a block cipher encryption algorithm that was designed at IBM in 1975 * News Distribution Service, operated by the UK government's Central Office of Information * ', a political party in Burkina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |