On2 Technologies

On2 Technologies (NASDAQ: ONT), formerly known as The Duck Corporation, is a small publicly-traded company (on the American Stock Exchange), headquartered in Clifton Park, New York that designs video codec technology. Some of its codec designs are known as TrueMotion S, TrueMotion 2, VP3, VP4, VP5, TrueMotion VP6, TrueMotion VP7 and VP8. In August 2009, Google announced that it will buy On2 Technologies for $106.5 million. While known by the name... more

On2 Technologies (NASDAQ: ONT), formerly known as The Duck Corporation, is a small publicly-traded company (on the American Stock Exchange), headquartered in Clifton Park, New York that designs video codec technology. Some of its codec designs are known as TrueMotion S, TrueMotion 2, VP3, VP4, VP5, TrueMotion VP6, TrueMotion VP7 and VP8. In August 2009, Google announced that it will buy On2 Technologies for $106.5 million. While known by the name The Duck Corporation, they developed TrueMotion S, a codec that was used by some games for FMV sequences during the 1990s. The original office of the Duck Corporation was founded in New York City by Dan Miller, Victor Yurkovsky and Stan Marder. Within a few years the present primary engineering office was established in upstate NY's capital region by Eric Ameres. Paul Wilkins of Cambridge, UK was founder of “Metavisual” which was acquired by On2 to bring to market the VP3 codec. In 1995, The Duck Corporation raised $1.5M in venture funding... less