To trust that Android smartphones and many other devices are secure from piracy, these popular streaming services make use of Google’s Widevine DRM platform. As one of the industry’s oldest DRM ...

In the present day scenario, it is pretty evident that streaming services are the new-age televisions for a lot of people. This is mainly because a lot of the content that was only available on the ...

Widevine, a company that is moving into its second decade of delivering digital rights management (DRM), announced today that its video optimization and protection platform now supports live HTTP ...

Google is buying Widevine, a Seattle vendor of digital-rights management software that’s widely used by broadcasters to safely transmit video content online. The move comes as Google is pledging to do ...

Apparently on acquiring tear today, Google just bought video delivery company Widevine, it has announced on its corporate blog: “So we’re pleased to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire Widevine. The ...

Google just confirmed on its blog that it has agreed to acquire Widevine, a company that specializes in digital video optimization and digital rights management (DRM). Google also hinted that it wants ...

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Networking equipment giant Cisco Systems and Canadian telecom behemoth Telus are joining with deep-pocketed venture capital firms to invest $16 million in Widevine -- a Seattle company that helps ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Anti-piracy firm Widevine announced Friday that it has been acquired by ...

If you were using a streaming service Tuesday, chances are you couldn’t watch anything for a while. The majority of the most popular streaming services had issues throughout Tuesday night that lasted ...

A reader tipped us off today that HBO Max stopped working a couple of weeks ago for Linux users, under any Web browser. Any attempt to play back a video on the ...

There is a new bug affecting Pixel owners. The new Pixel Widevine bug affects Netflix quality for owners of Google’s smartphones. According to Android Police, Google is working on a fix though. Some ...