About Gracenote

Gracenote is a leader in global digital entertainment technology that provides businesses with critical embedded software and metadata that enable consumers to better manage, enjoy, and discover digital media.
Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote also has offices in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Taipei and Seoul.  Gracenote's solutions are embedded in leading media players such as Apple iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, RealNetworks Rhapsody, Napster and AOL Winamp, as well as software applications for Creative and iRiver portable devices. Gracenote's technology also powers leading home and automobile consumer electronics brands such as Alpine, Denon, Marantz, Kenwood, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony and Yamaha, as well as international mobile music applications for Amp'd (US), KDDI (Japan), KTF (Korea), SKT (Korea), Musiwave (Portugal), and Oi (Brazil).

Key to supporting Gracenote’s audio recognition technology is the Gracenote Global Media Database which includes the following:

- 8 million albums

- 100 million tracks

- 27.5 million audio waveform fingerprints

For more information about Gracenote, please visit: http://www.gracenote.com/corporate

About Civolution

Civolution is a leading provider of technology and services for identifying, managing and monetizing media content. The company offers an extensive portfolio of cutting edge watermarking and fingerprinting technology solutions for media protection (forensic tracking of media assets in pre-release, digital cinema, PayTV and online), media interaction (accurate and real-time video synchronization for 2nd screen and SmartTVs) and media intelligence (audience measurement and media monitoring for television, radio and internet). 

Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Civolution has offices in London, France, New York, Los Angeles and Shanghai. It was formed in October 2008 as a spin-off from Royal Philips Electronics combining synergies from Philips CI, Teletrax and Thomson STS.

For more information about Civolution, please visit: http://www.civolution.com