TiVo, Inc. (NASDAQ: TiVo) was incorporated on August
4, 1997 as "Teleworld, Inc." by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay, veterans of
Silicon Graphics and Time Warner's Full Service Network digital video
system. Originally intending to create a home network device, they
later developed the idea to record digitized video on a hard disk.
Teleworld began the first public trials of the TiVo device and service
in late 1998 in the San Francisco Bay area. T...
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Date founded:
- Aug 1997
