Santa Clara, Calif. - Macrovision (NASD: MVSN) announced on Monday that it has sold its TV Guide magazine property to private equity firm OpenGate Capital for an undisclosed sum.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Macrovision (NASD: MVSN), a provider of anti-piracy technology and informational media databases, announced on Friday that it has acquired website and technology assets from ThoughtWorthy Media, a platform that allows TV viewers to identify, research and purchase online the music, products and advertising they see on television.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Four months after first announcing plans to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide (NASD: GMST), Macrovision (NASD: MVSN), a provider of anti-piracy technology and informational databases, said that shareholders from both companies have now approved the $2.3 billion deal.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its relationship with digital video recorder firm TiVo (NASD: TIVO). Under the terms, the companies entered into a new patent license agreement for retail products and certain service provider deployments of the TiVo service in international markets. "International interest in TiVo is at an all time high as retailers and service providers globally seek to deliver the TiVo service as a way to differentiate their video products," said Joshua Danovitz, VP and GM of International at TiVo.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, announced on Tuesday the launch of a new mobile version of tis TVGuide.com site. M.TVGuide.com will offer a 14-day, localized program guide complete with episode descriptors, and let users set series and show reminder text alerts.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST) said on Monday that set-top box manufacturer Humax has signed a license agreement allowing the company to use Gemstar's interactive program guides in set-top boxes distributed throughout Europe. The license also extends to digital televisions and digital recording devices made by Humax.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, announced on Thursday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against cable TV provider Virgin Media in the U.K.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Macrovision (NASD: MVSN), a provider of anti-piracy technology and informational databases on various media, said on Tuesday that its proposed $2.8 billion acquisition of interactive program guide company Gemstar-TV Guide (NASD: GMST) has passed antitrust reviews by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Monday that it has signed a multi-year license agreement with MobiTV, a provider of mobile TV delivery services. Under the deal, both MobiTV itself and its partners who provide the service will be able to offer subscribers to interactive program guides for mobile video programming.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Wednesday that it has signed a multi-year license agreement with Sony USA (NYSE: SNE), which may integrate its program guides into TV products in the U.S. Earlier this week, Gemstar announced a similar license agreement with Polaroid Labs, for the company's line of digital televisions and digital video recorders.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Macrovision (NASD: MVSN), a developer of media anti-piracy technology and content distribution services, announced on Friday that it has agreed to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, and the publisher of TV Guide, in a transaction valued at $2.8 billion.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, announced on Tuesday that it has signed its first program guide licensing deal in China, in the form of a multi-year deal with Changzhou Broadcast & Television Information Network Co. Ltd.

Los Angeles - Some 75% of TV viewers who have access to interactive program guides (IPG) consult them as soon as they turn on their televisions, and 80% see the guides as "a necessity" for their viewing experience, according to a survey conducted by Lieberman Research Worldwide on behalf of program guide maker Gemstar-TV Guide (NASD: GMST) and Comcast Spotlight (NASD: CMCSA), the cable company's ad sales division.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year interactive program guide license deal with Japan's So-net Entertainment Corp., a joint venture of Sony Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Finance International. The guide will be integrated on So-net's TV ohkoku ("TV Kingdom") online video portal.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International, a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Thursday that it has signed three new patent license agreements in Europe, with German consumer electronics firms Loewe Opta, Metz-Werke and Kathrein-Werke. The deals will allow the companies to incorporate Gemstar's program guides into their television, set-top boxes and digital video recorders.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International, a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Tuesday that it signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Qualcomm's MediaFLO USA. The deal allows MediaFLO to incorporate Gemstar's program guides into its commercial U.S. mobile TV service.

Seattle - BuddyTV, a site that provides original and user-generated content related to television shows, has raised $2.8 million in its first round of financing, led by Gemstar-TV Guide International, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide, a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Wednesday that it has licensed its patented service to Decisionmark, for use on the company's TitanTV website, which provides a localized online program guide for all programming sources.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International, a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said it has amended its licensing agreement with Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, to include its new TV Guide Daily product. The company said that TV Guide Daily is a simplified version of its full programming guide, and features 24 hours of program listings that populate much more quickly.

Cambridge, Mass. - Maven Networks, a provider of Internet TV delivery technology, said on Wednesday that Gemstar-TV Guide will use its services to power its online video channels. Massachusetts-based Maven will work with TV Guide to launch broadband video for its over 300 dynamically-generated video players at TVGuide.com.