Spruce Technologies was a privately-held DVD authoring company in California that was acquired by Apple Computer in 2001.
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History
Spruce Technologies was founded in 1996 by Dr. Hiromu Soga with investments from Japan, Taiwan, and North America. The company had been developing DVDMaestro, a competitor to Apple's own newly released DVD Studio Pro 1.0, which it had just acquired from Astarte GmbH in April 2000.[1][2][3] On July 9, 2001, Apple acquired Spruce Technologies for US$15 million.[4] There were 55 employees in San Jose, California at the time of the acquisition.[2] The development team helped incorporate the features of DVDMaestro into DVD Studio Pro 2.0,[5] which was released on August 6, 2003.[6]
Products
Software
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Stations
Encoder boards
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References
- ↑ Management Team, Spruce Technologies. Archived 1999-05-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 We're Authoring the Digital Age, Spruce Technologies. Archived 2001-08-01.
- ↑ Apple Acquires DVD Authoring Technology, Products and Engineering Team From Astarte, Apple Computer. 2000-04-10.
- ↑ Apple Acquires Spruce Technologies, Mergr. 2001-07-09.
- ↑ Review: DVD Studio Pro 2(4), Creative Planet Network. 2012-02-14.
- ↑ Apple Releases DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple Computer. 2003-08-06.
External links
- Spruce Technologies official website (archived 2001-05-19, 1998-12-06)
- Spruce Technologies Inc at Bloomberg
- Spruce Technologies at Crunchbase
- Spruce Technologies at Facebook
- Spruce Technologies at Wikipedia (archived 2007-12-31)
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