- Ulead Systems
Infobox_Company
company_name = Ulead Systems, Inc.
company_
company_type =subsidiary
foundation =Taipei, Taiwan (August 5 ,1989 )
location_city = flagicon|TaiwanTaipei
location_country =Taiwan
key_people =Lotus Chen , FounderWay-Zen Chen , FounderLewis Liaw , FounderSteve Ro ,Chairman Eldon Liu , CEO
industry = Software publishing
parent =Corel Corporation
products =Computer software
revenue =USD 34.46million (2005 )
num_employees = 287 in UleadHeadquarter (January 31 ,2006 )
homepage = [http://www.ulead.com www.ulead.com]Ulead Systems is a
Taiwan esecomputer software company headquartered inNeihu district inTaipei ,Taiwan . It is a subsidiary ofCorel Corporation .History
Ulead was founded in
August 5 ,1989 byLotus Chen ,Lewis Liaw andWay-Zen Chen . They founded Ulead with the support ofMicrotek after leaving Taiwan'sInstitute for Information Industry in order to further 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 intoAdobe Systems in1994 and PhotoStyler is no longer available. Ulead then continued to develop PhotoImpact 3 as itsflagship image editor and sell PhotoImpact by itself. Today, PhotoImpact is known as a competitor ofAdobe Photoshop .Ulead Systems then extended its development of multimedia software in various areas such as
video editing ,media management ,web utility ,DVD authoring anddigital home .On
September 17 ,2001 , Ulead was listed on theTaiwan Stock Exchange as [http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=2487.TW 2487.TW] .On
April 13 ,2005 ,InterVideo acquired Ulead Systems for approximately $68 million. OnJuly 9 ,2006 , InterVideo announced its merger with Ulead to be completed onDecember 28 , 2006.On 28 August, 2006,
Corel Corporation announced that it would acquire InterVideo for about $196 million. [cite web|publisher=Financial Times |date=2006-08-28 |accessdate=2006-09-10|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2785070a-36b1-11db-89d6-0000779e2340.html|title=Corel buys InterVideo for $196m|first=Chris|last=Nuttall]On
October 24 , 2006, Ulead was unlisted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.Fact|date=August 2007On
December 12 , 2006, Corel announced the acquisition of InterVideo and Ulead had been completed. [ [http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?c=Content_C1&cid=1165614963089&lc=en&pagename=CorelCom%2FLayout Corel's letter to customers on the InterVideo Ulead acquisition] ]Products
Video
* VideoStudio
* MediaStudio Pro/VideoGraphics Lab
*VideoTool Box
*COOL 3D ,COOL 3D Production Studio DVD
*
Burn.Now
* DVD MovieFactory
*DVD PictureShow
*DVD WorkShop Image
*
COOL 360
*COOL3D
*PhotoImpact
*IPhoto Plus
*Photo Explorer
*PhotoExpress
*My Scrapbook Web Utility
*
GIF Animator
*GIF-X.Plug-in
*Menu.Applet
*SmartSaver Pro Pocket Software
*
Pocket SlideShow
*Pocket DV Show Digital home *
InstaMedia References
See also
*
Ulead MediaStudio Pro
*InterVideo
*Corel Corporation External links
* [http://www.ulead.com Ulead Systems]
* [http://www.ulead.de Ulead Systems Germany]
* [http://www.internetvideomag.com/Articles_2007/052307_UleadVideoStudio11.htm First Look at Ulead Videostudio 11]
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