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VOD, IPTV and advanced advertising technology provider, SeaChange International, announced Tuesday that it has acquired all the issued share capital of eventIS, a privately owned Eindhoven, Netherlands-based company that provides VOD and linear broadcast software and services to cable and telco operators primarily in Europe. According to SeaChange, in 2008 eventIS generated US GAAP revenues of approximately $13 million and turned a profit. The company has around 70 full-time employees.

Macrovision, the company which last year acquired the US's dominant EPG developer, Gemstar-TV Guide (and which has since divested itself of the latter's TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Network, TV Guide Online and TVG properties), announced Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Muze, a New York-based company that provides entertainment information (metadata) products and discovery services. "Macrovision believes that professional entertainment metadata is required for our customers to provide best-in-class, consumer-facing products," Macrovision president and CEO, Fred Amoroso, said in a prepared statement. "The addition of the Muze assets will complement Macrovision's data solutions.