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Amazon is working on a new DVR device for the streaming era that that would be a household’s hub for the company’s online video. Citing sources, Bloomberg reports that the gadget — known in-house as “Frank” — would push consumers to bypass cable and satellite TV while dinging TiVo’s market for digital video…

TiVo Corp., which is already reviewing its strategic options as a company, said its CEO made a “personal decision” to resign less than a year in the role. Enrique Rodriguez is becoming chief technology officer at Liberty Global, a major cable operator in Europe and a longtime customer of TiVo’s. Raghu Rau, a board…

TiVo, the pioneer in time-shifted TV, said its board of directors elected Enrique Rodriguez to the position of president and CEO effective today. He also joins the company's board. Rodriguez has worked in the entertainment technology and media for decades. Most recently, he served executive vice president and chief…

Samsung no longer has to fear a patent infringement suit from TiVo:  The DVR pioneer — recently bought by Rovi, which changed its name — announced today a “broad intellectual property license” with Samsung that includes a stay of their litigation “upon satisfaction of certain conditions.” The terms give Samsung the…

It’s time to say goodbye, sort of, to the company whose pioneering DVR introduced consumers to time shifting and ad skipping. Some 17 years after it went public, TiVo just became a part of Rovi with the closing of a $1.1 billion cash and stock acquisition deal they made in May — but with the buyer now adopting the…

Entertainment tech company Rovi Corp. said this morning that it has completed a deal to acquire DVR maker TiVo for $1.1 billion in cash and stock. The new $3 billion aggregate, which will take the TiVo name, is expected to generate “saving synergies” of $100 million in the first year, according to…

Updated with Comcast response: Comcast has a lot riding on its set top boxes, especially its X1 — so it has to be concerned about the patent infringement suit that digital technology company Rovi just filed. But Rovi also has much at stake: Its shares are down more than 14% this morning after it filed the suit. The…

TiVo shares fast-fowarded 20% this morning on a report that Rovi is preparing to offer cash and stock to buy the beleaguered DVR pioneer. The negotiations are “at a sensitive stage” and could fall apart, according to The New York Times, which first reported the story citing “people briefed on the talks.” The tentative…

TiVo’s had a hard time persuading Wall Street that there’s still a place for its DVRs in an increasingly competitive market for TV boxes. But its just-released report for the quarter ending in October, and plans for 2016, may help a little. The company reported the biggest-ever net increase in its customer base: It…

This is a big change for TiVo, whose stock price has declined nearly 34% over the last 12 months. The company says that CEO Tom Rogers will give up the top job at the end of January, but remain as the non-executive Chairman. The board has formed a search committee to find a replacement.  Rogers’ “accomplishments…

TiVo has several answers this afternoon for investors wondering how the DVR pioneer plans to grow in a period when Comcast and other major pay TV providers worry about cord cutting — and hope to slow it by promoting their own next generation video technologies. TiVo will head back to court, this time with a patent…

At least a day according to 27.7% of DVR users surveyed by TiVo last month — with 10.9% voting for at least two days and 22.7% supporting even longer. On the flip side, 22.5% would wait less than a day, including 12.6% who say everything’s fair game the instant a show airs. (Some 16.6% don’t care.) It’s more than just…