TiVo, which introduced the digital video recorder (DVR) by the same name in 1999, will have an engineering center in Iasi, Romania, which will contribute to the development of TiVo products.
Initially, Ness SES will provide TiVo with a dedicated R&D team to help bring TiVo products to market. Over time, TiVo intends to transition the engineering center in Iasi into a fully TiVo-owned facility.
“After an in-depth evaluation, we found Romania to be an exceptional location for our new engineering center,” said Dan Phillips, TiVo’s Chief Operating Officer and SVP of Engineering.
“Our continued growth as a global leader in the Pay TV market will be significantly enhanced by the access to the highly skilled engineering talent in Romania. As we add to our existing teams in Silicon Valley, we will be able to increase the overall efficiency of our R&D activities while increasing our engineering efforts related to set top box and mobile products development.”
The partnership with Ness SES is part of TiVo’s strategy to expand operations in Europe.
TiVo is a provider of DVR equipment that enables users to record TV programs. Users can schedule recordings online via TiVo website and transfer the recordings between TiVo devices or to their computers.
Israel’s Ness SES has been operating in Romania since 2005 and opened an R&D center in Iasi in 2012. The center in Iasi provides software product engineering, system integration and application development services.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)