Ulead Systems
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| Type | Corporation (TSEC:2487) |
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| Founded | Taipei, Taiwan (August 5, 1989) |
| Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Key people | Lotus Chen, Founder Way-Zen Chen, Founder Lewis Liaw, Founder Steve Ro, Chairman Eldon Liu, CEO |
| Industry | Software publishing |
| Products | Computer software |
| Revenue | USD 34.46 million (2005) |
| Employees | 287 in Ulead Headquarter (January 31, 2006) |
| Website | www.ulead.com |
Ulead Systems (TSEC:2487) is a Taiwanese computer software company headquartered in Neihu district in Taipei, Taiwan.
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[edit] History
Ulead was founded in August 5, 1989 by Lotus Chen, Lewis Liaw and Way-Zen Chen. They founded Ulead with the support of Microtek after leaving Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry in order to futher develop and commercialize their first true color image editing software, PhotoStyler, on the Windows platform.
Ulead sold PhotoStyler through Aldus software as a software developer. However, Aldus merged into Adobe in 1994 and PhotoStyler is no longer available. Ulead then continued to develop PhotoImpact 3 as its flagship image editor and sell PhotoImpact by itself. Today, PhotoImpact is known as a competitor of Adobe PhotoShop.
Ulead Systems then extended its development of multimedia software in various areas such as video editing, media management, web utility, DVD authoring and digital home.
On September 17, 2001, Ulead was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange as 2487.TW.
On April 13, 2005, InterVideo acquired Ulead Systems for approximately $68 million. On July 9, 2006, InterVideo announced its merger with Ulead to be completed on December 28, 2006.
On August 28, 2006, Corel Corporation agreed to purchase InterVideo for approximately $196 million.
On October 24, 2006, Ulead was unlisted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
[edit] Products
[edit] Video
VideoStudio, MediaStudio Pro, VideoGraphics Lab, VideoTool Box, COOL 3D, and COOL 3D Production Studio.
[edit] DVD
Burn.Now, DVD MovieFactory, DVD PictureShow, and DVD WorkShop.
[edit] Image
COOL 360, PhotoImpact, Photo Explorer, PhotoExpress, and My Scrapbook.
[edit] Web Utility
GIF Animator, GIF-X.Plug-in, Menu.Applet, and SmartSaver Pro.
[edit] Pocket Software
Pocket SlideShow and Pocket DV Show.
[edit] Digital home
InstaMedia
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