Ulead Systems () is a Taiwanese

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software company headquartered in

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. It is a subsidiary of

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History

Ulead was founded on 5 August 1989 by Lotus Chen, Lewis Liaw and Way-Zen Chen. They founded Ulead with the support of

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after leaving Taiwan's

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in order to further develop and commercialize their first true color image editing software,

PhotoStyler Aldus PhotoStyler was a graphics software program developed by the Taiwanese company Ulead. Released in June 1991 as the first 24 bit image editor for Windows, it was bought the same year by the Aldus Prepress group. Its main competition was Adobe ...

, on the

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platform. Ulead sold PhotoStyler through

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as a

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. However, Aldus merged into

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in 1994 and PhotoStyler is no longer available. Ulead then continued to develop

PhotoImpact Ulead PhotoImpact (originally called Iedit) was a raster and vector graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems. Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also featured HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagema ...

3 as its

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image editor and sell PhotoImpact by itself. Ulead Systems then extended its development of multimedia software in various areas such as

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, web utility,

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and

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. On 17 September 2001, Ulead was listed on the

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On 13 April 2005,

InterVideo InterVideo was a software publisher specializing in multimedia-related programs. InterVideo's products include video capture, video capturing, video editing, DVD authoring, Optical disc authoring, CD/DVD recording, film distribution, and video pl ...

acquired Ulead Systems for approximately $68 million. On 9 July 2006, InterVideo announced its merger with Ulead to be completed on 28 December 2006. On 28 August 2006,

Corel Cascade Parent Limited, doing business as Alludo ( ), is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. Formerly called the Corel Corporation ( ; from the abbreviation "Cowpland Research Laborat ...

announced that it would acquire InterVideo for about $196 million. On 24 October 2006, Ulead was unlisted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. On 12 December 2006, Corel announced the acquisition of InterVideo and Ulead had been completed.Corel's letter to customers on the InterVideo Ulead acquisition
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Products

Video

* VideoStudio * MediaStudio Pro/VideoGraphics Lab * VideoTool Box * COOL 3D, COOL 3D Production Studio

DVD

* Burn.Now * DVD MovieFactory * DVD PictureShow * DVD WorkShop

Image

* COOL 360 * COOL 3D *

* IPhoto Plus * Photo Explorer * Photo Express * My Scrapbook

Web Utility

* GIF Animator * GIF-X.Plug-in * Menu.Applet * SmartSaver Pro

Pocket Software

* Pocket SlideShow * Pocket DV Show

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* InstaMedia

References

External links

Ulead SystemsUlead Systems Germany
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